“After what just happened earlier this year in Los Angeles, we think fire safety and emergency preparedness is where we want to make cuts?”

Tony Chicotel, a senior staff attorney with the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. He was questioning a provision in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget that would block a law passed last year requiring nursing homes to have capacity to supply 96 hours of power using their own generators or other sources. The current standard is six hours. Nursing homes say they need more time to prepare for a $1 billion capital investment to meet such rules. (KFF Health News)