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Ohio has $50M plan to shrink nursing home bed count Kaitlin Schroeder Older Ohioans overwhelmingly prefer to stay home and out of a nursing home as long as possible, and when in a nursing home, people primarily want the room to themselves. This has prompted the DeWine administration to propose a $50 million fund that would buy back bed licenses from nursing homes and shrink the number of beds in the region. The fund is proposed as part of DeWine’s newly unveiled two-year operations budget proposal, which will be considered by the Ohio General Assembly. Even though the number...

Gov. Mike DeWine's budget includes a plan to give Ohio's Department of Health the power to shut down nursing homes across the state.  "The Patient Protection proposal," according to a fact sheet on the proposed budget, would give the agency "the authority to swiftly intervene to protect patients in nursing facilities when they determine the health and safety of patients is in jeopardy." The department could also "immediately remove patients and relocate them into a safe facility." The sheet doesn't give details about when the department could do this, what proof would be required and wheth...