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  Crackdown on caretakers

  Finding more filth, abuse, state moves to shut ALFs

  While the state continues its crackdown on assisted-living facilities, inspectors are finding more caretakers leaving frail elders amid dangerous and decrepit conditions.
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  Assisted living facilities

  Miami-Dade grand jury probes troubled ALFs

  After years of abuse and neglect at ALFs, a grand jury is investigating deadly breakdowns in the facilities — the primary homes for the elderly and mentally ill in Florida.
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  Long-term care

  Florida curtails effort to police ALFs

  Under fire from some lawmakers and healthcare industry leaders, Florida’s struggling elder ombudsman program now has turned on itself.
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  Peacekeepers Den

  Chased by watchdogs, ALF bites back

  For the owners of one Pinellas County home that cares for residents with mental illness and faces a variety of complaints, the best defense is a good offense.
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  Assisted-living facilities

  Indictment, fines didn’t stop ALF operator

  An ALF owner whose facilities were repeatedly fined — and who is charged in an alleged counterfeit drugs conspiracy — was still able to operate.
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  Marine dies at North Miami ALF

  A Marine who survived World War II and Korea died when he fell three stories from a balcony in an ALF’s Alzheimer’s wing. It didn’t have to happen.

• Troubled Miami-Dade ALF finally shut down

  The Munne Center had become a symbol of the state’s failure to close down problem-plagued assisted living facilities.

• Lawmakers: Regulators need to crack down on ALFS

  Legislative report: State regulators need to shut down dangerous assisted living facilities — and stop bargaining down punishments.
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  State clamps down on 17 ALFs

  At a Miami-Dade assisted living facility, a caretaker left a sick, 72-year-old stroke victim alone without air conditioning, locking the doors in the scorching heat so the man couldn’t escape the tiny home.

• Program to protect elders undermined, feds say

  The program charged with protecting Florida residents from abuse in ALFs and nursing homes has been undermined by political and industry interference, the feds say.
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  Assisted Living Facilities

  Florida cracks down on troubled ALFs

  Two homes have been forced to shut down and others are losing state funding, as regulators move to protect vulnerable residents.

• ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES

  State lawmaker criticizes assisted-living facility owners

  Assisted living facility industry leaders faced off against advocates for elders and Floridians with mental illness in Tallahassee.

• Assisted Living Facilities

  Task force to seek reform of ALF industry

  As a task force on assisted living reform prepares for its first meeting, advocates for the elderly worry the effort may be hijacked by industry leaders intent on protecting the status quo.
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  Lawmakers pushed to slash state oversight of Assisted Living Facilities

  While vulnerable residents were dying of abuse and neglect in ALFs, Florida lawmakers waged a campaign to slash state oversight of the state’s troubled homes.

• Assisted Living Facility

  State moves to shut down ALF

  A state agency’s report said residents at the Hillandale home in New Port Richey are in serious danger after a series of violent acts among residents and one caregiver.
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  Florida task force to help boost troubled assisted living facilities

  Just weeks after ordering a crackdown on troubled assisted living facilities, Florida Gov. Rick Scott is launching a rare task force to search for ways to improve homes that have left frail residents to fend for themselves in squalor and dangerous conditions.

• Assisted Living Facilities

  State moves to shut down money to ALFs

  The state moved to shut down the authority of three troubled ALFs to bill Medicaid, a measure that could jeopardize their ability to remain open.
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  Assisted-Living Facilities

  Top lawmaker stunned by conditions at assisted-living facility

  After a disturbing visit to one of Florida’s most troubled assisted-living facilities, a leading lawmaker said the state is leaving its most vulnerable citizens to fend for themselves in deplorable conditions.
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  NEGLECTED TO DEATH PART III

  Part III | Inspectors find violations at Lauderhill ALFs

  The State Attorney General’s office, along with other state and local agencies, began a two-day inspection of Assisted Living Facilities in the troubled Lauderhill community known as Cannon Point.

• In My Opinion

  Fred Grimm: Assisted living facility horrors have gone unpunished

  The maddening thing is that the horrors — and they were gut wrenching — have gone unpunished.

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