Organizations Filed Purposes:
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR is dedicated to improving the choices, care and quality of life for Californias long -erm care consumers. Through direct advocacy, policy research, education, and litigation it has been CANHRs goal to educate and support long term care consumers and advocates regarding the rights and remedies under the law, and to create a united voice for long term care reform and humane alternatives to institutionalization.
CAHNR is dedicated to fighting elder abuse and protecting the rights of California's long-term care consumers through advocacy support, education, information and referrals.
Advocacy Support - During the 2019-20 Fiscal Year, CANHR staff responded to over 12,000 inquiries and requests for services from legal services, social workers, long term care professionals, attorneys and consumers via CANHRs consumer hotline and the CANHR website feedback system, providing counseling, information and assistance with Medi-Cal, elder financial abuse and resident rights issues. During 19-20, CANHR staff participated in 103 presentations and outreach events for community groups, family councils, social workers, health care providers, government agency staff and other advocates and policy makers throughout California. Topics included Medi-Cal for long-term care, incapacity issues, estate recovery, nursing home and residential care rights, family councils, elder financial abuse, and COVID issues such as visitation and infection control, among others. CANHRs Homeless Prevention Project, funded by the State Bar of California, provided counseling and representation on long term care transfer and eviction rights to consumers throughout California and resulted in several successful outcomes, with residents being able to return to their homes. In March 2020, CANHR created a special COVID-19 News and Resources site for consumers, advocates and legal services staff specifically for COVID-19 information, news and resources related to Long Term Care at https://canhrnews.com.From March through June 2020 this site has had over 21,000 visitors and another 2,500 visitors to CANHRs visitation site. CANHR presented two continuing education workshops via Zoom to over 100 social workers and discharge planners as well as four on-site and webinar trainings for long term care ombudsman staff and thirteen on-site and webinar trainings for 1,0097 legal services staff. CANHRs annual two-day Elder Law Conference for private bar and legal services attorneys was held via Zoom in November 2020, and CANHR provided scholarships to all interested legal services staff members.CANHRs web site, www.canhr.org received over 276,000 visitors over this fiscal year, with the most frequently visited pages being In Home Supportive Services, Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal Recovery and residential care information. The web site feedback form allows consumers to get answers to questions and referrals on a daily basis providing information on resident and consumer rights, legal services support and referrals through CANHRs Lawyer Referral Service. All of the consumer fact sheets can be downloaded, and most are available Spanish and Chinese. CANHR developed a new consumer publication, A Consumers Guide to Reverse Mortgages, and translated it into Spanish and Chinese and printed and distributed 1,500 copies free of charge to consumers and legal services programs in California.
Legal Services Support As a qualified Legal Services Support Center funded by the State Bar of California, CANHR staff provided California's legal services project staff with training, advocacy assistance and technical assistance. CANHR staff also assisted hundreds of individual clients referred by legal services programs and others on a variety of long-term care-related issues. During 2019-20, CANHR staff organized and presented thirteen trainings with over 1,000 legal services program staff participating in various programs, including an Elder Law Conference four-hour session specifically directed to legal services programs. CANHR also provided legal services programs with free copies of all of its publications, including training manuals, quarterly newsletters and consumer self-help booklets on Medi-Cal and elder financial abuse.
Lawyer Referral Services CANHR's Lawyer Referral Service is the only statewide, State Bar certified LRS in California that specializes in long term care issues. CANHR's Lawyer Referral Service offers free, low fee and regular fee referrals to current and potential residents of long- term care facilities and their family members and provides access to legal representation in such areas as elder financial abuse, estate planning, protective services and residents' rights. The LRS currently has 116 participating attorneys on nine specialized panels, all of whom agree to accept at least two pro bono and two reduced fee cases per year. CANHR receives 15% of attorneys fees to support its advocacy work. In 2019-20 the LRS referred 411 clients to panel attorneys in California, and assisted hundreds of other consumers with various legal and consumer problems.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Patricia Mcginnis | Executive Dir. | 40 | $155,295 |
| Roy Prescott Cole | Senior Attorney | 40 | $116,090 |
| Sahana Kiron Magal | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Yvonne Troya | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Terry Donnelly | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| James H Johns | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Dr Harvey Davis | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Darlene Yee-Melichar | Secretary | 0.5 | $0 |
| Patrick Nakao | Treasurer | 0.5 | $0 |
| Kellie Morgantini | Vice President | 0.5 | $0 |
| Anne Marie Murphy | President | 0 | $0 |
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