tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 29

Long-Term Care: Watch For Tougher Nursing Home Surveys

Nursing homes may be in for more scrutiny.Nursing homes may think that surveys have gotten tougher in recent years, but a building consensus on Capitol Hill says they still aren't tough enough - and that quality of care is suffering. That was the message that emerged from the latest in a series of oversight hearings on nursing home quality held by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA). For the 18-month period ending in January 2002, according to a General Accounting Office report released at the July 17 hearing, about one in five nursing homes were cited by state inspectors for...

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