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{{Short description|US federal law}}
The '''Nursing Home Reform Act''', also known as the '''Federal Nursing Home Reform Act  (FNHRA)''' or the '''Federal Nursing Home Amendments Act of 1987''', is a part of the [[Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987]] which gives guidelines to regulate [[nursing home care]] in the United States. The act was intended to advance [[nursing home residents' rights]].
==Background==
A 1986 study organized by the [[Institute of Medicine]] found that people in nursing homes were not getting fair or adequate health care or personal treatment.<ref name="Klauber 2001">{{cite web |url= http://www.aarp.org/home-garden/livable-communities/info-2001/the_1987_nursing_home_reform_act.html |title=The 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act |first1=Martin |last1=Klauber |first2=Bernadette |last2=Wright |publisher=[[AARP]] |work=aarp.org |date=February 2001 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> The Institute of Medicine responded to the study by proposing broad and deep reforms in the regulation of nursing homes.<ref name="Klauber 2001"/> These reforms were integrated into the [[Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987]] and passed as part of that law.<ref name="Klauber 2001"/>
The Nursing Home Reform Act provides guidelines and minimal standards which nursing homes must meet. It also created a Nursing Home Residents' Bill of Rights.<ref name="Klauber 2001"/>
==Impact==
A 2004 survey reported a range of improvements attributed to the act.<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Zhang | first1 = X. | last2 = Grabowski | first2 = DC. | title = Nursing home staffing and quality under the nursing home reform act. | journal = Gerontologist | volume = 44 | issue = 1 | pages = 13–23 |date=Feb 2004 | PMID = 14978317 }}</ref>
A 2007 study by the [[Kaiser Family Foundation]] reviewed outcomes of the act.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wiener|first1=Joshua M.|last2=Freiman|first2=Marc P.|last3=Brown|first3=David|author4=[[RTI International]] |title=Nursing Home  Care  Quality Twenty Years After The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987|url=https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/7717.pdf|publisher=Kaiser Family Foundation|date=December 2007}}</ref>
==Related Supreme Court case==
In ''[[Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski]]'', 599 U.S. 166 (2023), the [[United States Supreme Court]] held that the provisions of the Nursing Home Reform Act at issue unambiguously created rights enforceable under [[Section 1983]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan Act]] (codified at {{UnitedStatesCode|42|1983}}), and private enforcement under §1983 is compatible with the Nursing Home Reform Act’s remedial scheme. The Supreme Court ruled that a plaintiff can file a federal civil rights claim because of violation of the Nursing Home Reform Act. The Supreme Court case was regarding a man with dementia.<ref>https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-806</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Nursing homes in the United States]]
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[[Category:United States federal reconciliation legislation|1987]]
[[Category:1987 in economic history]]
[[Category:100th United States Congress]]
[[Category:Medicare and Medicaid (United States)]]
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