I've read stories of nursing homes discharging resident to relatives front door without their consent. Is this true?

However, there is not a law against a nursing home resident discharging themselves and requesting transport to a relative's home if they are competent to do so. Relative would have to say they could not come in or change locks if the NH resident used to live at the place requested to be returned to...

I also doubt this. They may try to talk family into taking a loved one but there is no law that says u have to.

Any nursing home doing that is risking a massive lawsuit. I mean massive.

I doubt there is any administrator anywhere that dumb