The Nursing Home facility if it accepts federal money for any of its residents, can't require an arbitration clause as part of the contract. If you see an arbitration clause, go home and discuss the clause with your lawyer.
If you do not sign an Arbitration Clause, you can sue the nursing home in Court if you do not believe your Beloved is being well-treated. And, both the US Constitution and the Nebraska Constitution afford you the right to access the Courts---why would you blithely give-up these important Constitutional rights? Caregivers experience so much tension and angst associated with a nursing home admission. First of all, they have to find the right nursing home for their Beloveds, and then, they feel the grief of giving-up their Beloved to a long-term-care facility, all the while hoping that their Beloveds will be properly cared for. I myself felt all of this when I signed my Mother into a long-term care facility. And, once after Admission, if the caregiver senses their Beloved is perhaps being negligently or abusively treated, if there is an arbitration clause, in a dispute the caregiver must pay expensive hourly arbitration fees and also their own attorney's fees. Moreover, the nursing home might even choose the arbitrator.
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