{"id":6629,"date":"2017-05-02T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2017-05-02T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:21:43","slug":"volunteers-help-ombudsmen-give-nursing-home-residents-a-voice-in-their-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6629","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Help Ombudsmen Give Nursing Home Residents \u2018A Voice\u2019 In Their Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Since retiring four years ago, Barbara Corprew has visited Paris, traveled to a North Carolina film festival and taken Pilates classes, focusing on \u2014 as she puts it \u2014 just \u201cdoing things for me.\u201d Now the former Justice Department lawyer, who worked on white-collar crime cases, is devoting time to something completely different: She visits nursing homes every week.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/volunteers-help-ombudsmen-give-nursing-home-residents-a-voice-in-their-care\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=51411821&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--uy-alcF5GQi9MnR5GBgDpBFVC_kcOrIfxw6ULcee_MfNhEr5R-GIIMYi01JFq5xKXswhiMVMHiSgPy1B17gAqQ7RlgQ&amp;_hsmi=51411821\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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