This article from The Chicago Tribune discusses the proposals to overhaul the Illinios’ troubled long-term care system.  Senior home operators are objecting to raising minimum staffing levels across the board, increasing fines and penalties for unsafe and poorly run facilities, and raising fees to help pay for new safety enforcement.

State officials, elder advocates and industry representatives are now meeting in roughly two dozen smaller “working groups” in an effort to hammer out a consensus on the most difficult issues before proposed legislation moves forward in the next week or so. The General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn May 7.

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