To empower nursing home residents, prospective residents, their families and the community by educating and offering assistance with problems of care in the nursing home setting

To hold the nursing home industry accountable by exposing bad practices in specific nursing homes

To hold the oversight agencies accountable by seeing that they follow guidelines for conducting surveys, complaint investigations and enforcement of regulations

To hold legislators accountable by exposing them when they support laws detrimental to nursing home residents

To see that nursing home residents do not lose their rights as US citizens because they are living in a nursing home