Mark Parkinson: Assisted Living Regulation is No "Panacea"
July 30, 2013 Mark Parkinson is the president and CEO of the American Health Care Association. A former governor of Kansas, Parkinson told FRONTLINE that states, not the federal government, are better positioned to regulate assisted living. He cautioned, however, that regulation is not necessarily a panacea. Regulation that establishes regimens, institutional-type settings, and really