tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 7

NURSING HOMES: Nursing Homes Receive Poor Marks For Quality And Safety

Weak oversight, recurring understatements and poor compliance continue to plague nursing homes.Nursing home oversight standards have increased, but not enough to eradicate many important quality and safety issues. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office outlines several critical flaws in nursing home standards and care that have been recurring since 1998. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), Special Committee on Aging ranking member, requested the report.Nursing homes fail to meet the grade in five key areas related to annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' state agency surveys...

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