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Class Action Settlement For Nursing Home Patients Benefits California Hospice
Published on Mon Apr 16, 2012 
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Poor behavior on the part of a nursing home chain has resulted in a boon for one hospice. A class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 32,000 residents of
Skilled Healthcare gave $300,000 of the settlement to Hospice of Humboldt, the newspaper reports. The hospice, which served more than 580 patients last year, will put the funds toward building an inpatient facility, it told the Times-Standard.
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