North Carolina has levied millions in fines against assisted living centers. What’s happening to that money?

For the September 2021 Health Care Half Hour, NCHN editor Rose Hoban and reporter Thomas Goldsmith spoke with Bill Lamb, board chair of Friends of Residents in Long Term Care, and Lisa Riegel, Manager, Advocacy & Livable Communities at AARP North Carolina.

Check out Thomas’s previous reporting on the subject here:

Appeals, secret deals delay fine payment for assisted living centers

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Health Care Half Hour: How assisted living centers have avoided paying millions in fines

by Editor, North Carolina Health News
September 17, 2021

<h1>Health Care Half Hour: How assisted living centers have avoided paying millions in fines</h1> <p class="byline">by Editor, North Carolina Health News <br />September 17, 2021</p> <p>North Carolina has levied millions in fines against assisted living centers. What’s happening to that money?</p> <p>For the September 2021 Health Care Half Hour, NCHN editor Rose Hoban and reporter Thomas Goldsmith spoke with Bill Lamb, board chair of Friends of Residents in Long Term Care, and Lisa Riegel, Manager, Advocacy &amp; Livable Communities at AARP North Carolina.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://youtu.be/lb_WPsESpIQ </div> </figure> <p>Check out Thomas’s previous reporting on the subject here:</p> <h3 id="h-appeals-secret-deals-delay-fine-payment-for-assisted-living-centers"><a href="https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/08/02/appeals-secret-deals-delay-fine-payment-for-assisted-living-centers/">Appeals, secret deals delay fine payment for assisted living centers</a></h3> <p><strong>Health Care Half Hour</strong>&nbsp;is a monthly conversation between one of our reporters and health care experts, held on the third Thursday of every month. Previous sessions include a conversation on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/06/17/overuse-of-involuntary-commitments-in-north-carolina/">use and overuse of involuntary commitment in North Carolina</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/07/29/health-care-half-hour-were-not-broken-changing-the-autism-conversation-july-29-2021/">talk with author Eric Garcia</a>&nbsp;about his new book, We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.</p> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/09/17/health-care-half-hour-how-assisted-living-centers-have-avoided-paying-millions-in-fines/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org">North Carolina Health News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-favicon02.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=34905&amp;ga3=UA-28368570-1" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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