Affiliation: | Mr. Jost is Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University College of Law in Columbus, Ohio The original draft of this paper was commissioned under contract by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., as part of their study of nursing home regulation that was funded by the Health Care Financing Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (Contract Number 500-83-0054). The National Academy of Sciences has given permission to publish this paper, but the opinions contained herein are those of the author and not those of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, its committee to study nursing home regulation, or the federal government. |