Resident fears of retaliation from staff members for voicing concerns about care and services are common but preventable in assisted living communities and nursing homes, according to a new report ...

Care facility advocates are educating nursing home residents about their rights. Carolyn Torres, the managing local ombudsman in the Basin, shared how she is working to educate and support people ...

Editor’s note: The Dayton Ombudsman Office provides weekly columns to the Dayton Daily News to bring awareness to issues it sees. The column was recently moved to the Ideas & Voices section to ...

The Dayton Ombudsman Office provides weekly columns to the Dayton Daily News to bring awareness to issues it sees in the community.

"She taught the deaf for 30-plus years, and then she started getting into nursing homes, and then she found the ombudsman program and she devotes so much of her time to it." As the only ombudsman ...