It’s not easy for Californians seeking care for themselves or their loved ones to find out if someone involved with another kind of care facility has been banned from running an assisted living home by the California Department of Social Services.
The names of barred individuals aren’t posted anywhere that is readily available to the public, according to Social Services. A state bill that would have required the list of banned individuals to be prominently posted on a state website died in Sacramento nearly a decade ago.
Eric Carlson, of the nonprofit Justice in Aging, said it shouldn’t be up to consumers to do that detective work. They “depend on the licensing agencies to do that level of vetting,” he said.
