HealthBridge Management, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board

Conspicuously absent from either the NLRB’s order or the majority opinion is recognition of a poignant reality: nursing homes provide critical care for the most vulnerable Americans. They compose our chronically “sickest” population; “[o]nly a hospital patient would be considered sicker.” Warner-Maron Trial Test. 541. Indeed, their residence in a nursing home typically means that they cannot “live outside an institution” because they “require ... care and supervision.” Id. Many suffer from, “multiple illnesses, comorbidities [and] superimposed cognitive deficits”; accordingly, they depend on…