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See larger Stephen Osman/The Star The Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard is one of the facilities where Jim Bauer, a state-certified ombudsman, checks in on patients and their living conditions. Bauer and other volunteer ombudsmen serve as advocates who monitor long-term care facilities. A Ventura County leader of the watchdog program is leading a drive to reform the state ombudsman's office.

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The Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard is one of the facilities where Jim Bauer, a state-certified ombudsman, checks in on patients and their living conditions. Bauer and other volunteer ombudsmen serve as advocates who monitor long-term care facilities. A Ventura County leader of the watchdog program is leading a drive to reform the state ombudsman's office.

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  • Stephen Osman/The Star The Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard is one of the facilities where Jim Bauer, a state-certified ombudsman, checks in on patients and their living conditions. Bauer and other volunteer ombudsmen serve as advocates who monitor long-term care facilities. A Ventura County leader of the watchdog program is leading a drive to reform the state ombudsman's office.
  • Stephen Osman/The Star Jim Bauer, a state-certified ombudsman, holds a call button that a patient presses when requesting care. Records of the response times are kept and are available to the ombudsman. Bauer and other volunteer ombudsmen serve as advocates who monitor long-term care facilities. A Ventura County leader of the watchdog program is leading a drive to reform the state ombudsman's office.
  • Photos by Stephen Osman/The Star Jim Bauer, a state-certified ombudsman, checks in on patient Salvacion "Sally" Iglesia, who said "Jim is so understanding." Bauer and other volunteer ombudsmen serve as advocates who monitor long-term care facilities.
  • Roussel Del Castillo, 26, uses a touch-screen monitor to input information on care given to patients at the Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard.
  • Stephen Osman/The Star Salvacion "Sally" Iglesia looks up at Jim Bauer, a state-certified ombudsman who checks in on residents of the Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard.
  • Stephen Osman/The Star Ombudsman Jim Bauer (left) talks with Mary Jo Seifert, 78, in the dining room at Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard. Seifert said, "I would be a lost soul without him." Bauer and other volunteer ombudsmen serve as advocates who monitor long-term care facilities.

A California watchdog office charged with protecting people in nursing homes too often loses its voice , according to a Ventura County seniors advocate.

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