This report highlights areas of weakness related to nursing home patients who may be inappropriately given psychotropic medications, believed mainly to be used as a tool to sedate and manage patients. In response to the report, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to the Secretary of HHS and the administrator of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). His letter points out long term concerns with psychotropic medications in this vulnerable patient population.

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