Calif. Rebukes Hollywood Charity for Nursing-Home Transfers

California health inspectors say an entertainment-industry charity that serves elderly show-business veterans violated state law when it moved dozens of residents out of its nursing home last year, writes the Los Angeles Times.

The Motion Picture and Television Fund failed to issue 30-day discharge notices informing more than 30 tenants of their rights, including an option to appeal their relocation, according to a report by the state Department of Public Health. No fines or citations were issued in conjunction with the findings.

About 50 people remain in the Woodland Hills, Calif., home, which the fund plans to close. Residents and their families have mounted a campaign to save the facility, which the charity says it can no longer afford to operate.

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