Sounds alot like the "assisted living centers" I've come across in Illinois, New York, and Florida. Sad to say that those places are nothing more than glorified slums for folks who can't take care of themselves. Management gets rich on the government teat while the patients suffer.
So no, it is NOT just in California.
That is truly sad. Some of these people are drug addicts and such but I have to believe that many of them are just elderly and abandoned by their family or disabled physically or mentally. I wonder how many of our war veterans have suffered in places like this? What really blows me away are the doctors coming in and all they care about is getting paid. I expect better than that from physicians. She said that the people coming in to provide skilled care are not even nurses or licensed at all and they are supposed to be. That they tell the residents to open up their pill bottles and which pills to take so that they are not technically administering meds. I don’t know how much to believe and I just hope to God that she is exaggerating.