The company also formed Applied Materials Japan, Inc., a joint venture created to increase the company's share of the growing Japanese semiconductor equipment market. Sales reached $69.3 million in 1980, but by 1982 the company was once again hit hard by a worldwide recession in the semiconductor industry.
All long-term care facilities are required to post, in a conspicuous location, the phone number for the local Ombudsman office and the Statewide CRISISline number 1-800-231-4024. This CRISISline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to take calls and refer complaints from residents.
Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program is established in Title VII Chapter 2 of the Older. Americans Act.2 It is established as a separate program with the Office of the SLTCO, headed. by a full-time State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, who is responsible for the statewide. program.