Wisconsin. Department of Health and Family Services: Attorneys' Files, 1978-2010

Container Title
2007/041
Part 3 (2007/041, Audio 1908A/1-9): Additions, 1992-1998
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (2 records center cartons) and 9 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note: Subject files, 1992-1998, of Linda Nichols, an attorney who specialized in issues related to nursing homes and long term care. Included are rules revision files and informal legal opinions on a variety of issues prepared for the Bureau of Quality Control and others in the Department of Health and Social Services. In addition, there are background files for a department-wide rules review which took place on Nichols' responsibilities for litigation. Approximately one fourth of the materials pertain to Nichols' responsibilities for litigation, most notably the Park Manor Nursing Home in Park Falls, Wisconsin. The documentation of this case contains personally-identifiable information and is confidential. The records include correspondence, briefs and pleadings, tape recordings of proceedings, depositions, and detailed statements of deficiency. There are also transcripts of taped proceedings of a hearing regarding the Sannes Skogdalen Home, although there are no other hearing records. Records other than the Park Manor case are not confidential. Audio recordings have been assigned call number Audio 1908A/1-9.
Access Restrictions: Documentation of the Park Manor Nursing Home contains personally-identifiable information and is confidential.
Box   1
Folder   1
Bureau of Quality Control memos
Box   1
Folder   2-3
Change of ownership, 1995-1996
Box   1
Folder   4-5
Chapter 50 revisions, 1997
Box   1
Folder   6
Citing policy
Box   1
Folder   7
Closed cases, 1993-1994
Box   1
Folder   8
Community-based residential facilities, 1993-1994
Box   1
Folder   9
Continuing education, 1993-1994
Box   1
Folder   10
Computer equipment purchase
Box   1
Folder   11
Confidential records policies
Box   1
Folder   12
Consolidation
Box   1
Folder   13
County service contracts, 1995
Box   1
Folder   14
Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations safety inspections
Box   1
Folder   15
Death investigations, 1994
Box   1
Folder   16
Death reporting requirements, 1993-1994
Box   1
Folder   17
Deficiency testimony (forfeiture specialist), 1992
Box   1
Folder   18
Drugs
Box   1
Folder   19
Enforcement Committee, 1995
Box   1
Folder   20
Facilities for the developmentally disabled, rules, 1997
Box   1
Folder   21
"F" tag memos, 1995
Box   1
Folder   22
Federal appeal rights history
Box   1
Folder   23
Florence Villa training, 1994
Box   1
Folder   24
Funding grants
Box   1
Folder   25
Grid placement review, 1995
Box   1
Folder   26
Hansen, Richard case
Box   1
Folder   27
Hoffman Elderly Care hearing, 1994
Box   1
Folder   28
Home health moratorium, 1997
Box   1
Folder   29-30
Investigator training, 1994-1998
Box   1
Folder   31
Job description
Box   1
Folder   32
"K" tags
Box   1
Folder   33
Landfill liability
Box   1
Folder   34
Lead screening
Box   1
Folder   35
Legal fee reimbursements, 1995
Legal opinions
Box   1
Folder   36
Miscellaneous, 1994-1997
Box   1
Folder   37
Of others in the counsel's office
Box   1
Folder   38
Requests
Box   1
Folder   39
Maryhill Manor, federal forfeiture, 1996
Box   1
Folder   40
Method language
Box   1
Folder   41
Miscellany
Box   2
Folder   1
NAFTA
Box   2
Folder   2
Nursing homes, miscellaneous
Box   2
Folder   3
Office policies
Box   2
Folder   12
Personnel Commission, 1993
Box   2
Folder   4-11
Park Manor hearing and appeal, 1995-1996
Access Restrictions: CONFIDENTIAL: contains personally-identifiable information.
Audio 1908A/1-9
Audio recording of hearing, 1996 August 29-30
Note: On tape: "95-1040N, 95-058 Kaiser"
Box   2
Folder   13
Plans of correction
Box   2
Folder   14
Records issues
Box   2
Folder   15
Reports
Box   2
Folder   16
Rules re-design
Box   2
Folder   16
Reports
Box   2
Folder   17
National state survey
Box   2
Folder   18
Process
Box   2
Folder   19
Statements of deficiency
Box   2
Folder   20
St. Francis Home, La Crosse
Box   2
Folder   21-22
Sannes Skogdalen Home
Box   2
Folder   23
Shield law
Box   2
Folder   24
State operations manual, 1998
Box   2
Folder   25
Training materials, notes
Box   2
Folder   26
Warning letters
Box   2
Folder   27
Workers' compensation for Aid to Families with Dependent Children