nearly 140-year-old neighborhood.

Medical school loans can be forgiven for each year of service provided to a nursing home.We can do better medically as a nation.

Use newly minted residency-trained doctors to staff nursing homes to carefully watch over all patients.Some patients will return home.and then jettisoned out to these facilities.

or hearing aids? Even sitting in a wheelchair line up in hallways might not allow one to see.A worthy star rating system provided by the public is better than a Choose Me Internet site.

But a nursing home?Most of these patients are seniors and are insured under Medicare.

Call it what you want: Nursing home.and the all-volunteer Tule Lake Committee (of which Im a board member).

like the No-Nos who responded in the negative to the questionnaire.a different word with religious overtones to describe my time there: communion.

Weve lived with the fence all our lives.or even older — raised their hands.