NAELA responded to a June 21, 2020 article in the New York Times, ‘They Just Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents. Excerpt: "Ultimately, the problems highlighted cannot be solved through self-help alone. We need changes in policy: first, better funding of state long-term care ombudsman programs to hold bad actors accountable, and then fixing the broken financial incentives inherent in Medicare and Medicaid that favor short-term stays, and now COVID-19 patients, over long-term, high needs patients such as those with dementia."