What I want to know is can my mother check herself out of a nursing home, or can my father, sister, or I check her out? She is in there temporarily supposedly for rehab, but they are doing nothing to rehab her so far. We think she would be better at home. Can we check her out before the doctor says she's rehabbed? I honestly think this is all about the money, and I'm this close to suing someone for malpractice anyway, but that's another story. They wouldn't even release her from the hospital to go home, they shoved her right in the nursing home. We are so mad!!