Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — State lawmakers lashed out Thursday at the state health director after a report said his department has failed to ensure that patients in nursing homes are kept safe.
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Osborne told Harrington that"it's going to have to be proven to us'' that ADHS actually did the investigations as required within the 10 days and was not simply finding paper solutions by reclassifying them to lower priority. "There's lots of cases that are not being looked at,'' said Sen. David Livingston, R-Peoria. And he said this requires immediate attention.