The latest proposal to overhaul the federal Five-Star Quality Rating System should concern every family searching for a safe nursing home. According to McKnight’s, CMS and federal advisers are considering a ratings redesign that would heavily weight one factor above all others — staffing — and the impact will be dramatic. Under the new model, only
WKRN reported that an audit in Tennessee has revealed thousands of uninvestigated complaints against long-term care facilities; years of abuse and neglect and cover up. Some complaints went over five years without being even slightly addressed. That’s 42% of total complaints filed against nursing homes within the last three years, uninvestigated. The Tennessee Health Facilities
KFF Health News reported on a chilling report by the HHS Office of Inspector General reveals that more than 90% of U.S. nursing homes were cited for federal health and safety violations in 2007. In light of the report, the Inspector General Daniel Levinson himself wrote that some facilities “have systematically failed to provide staff
“While we are still reviewing the report in detail, we agree that the Special Focus Facility program is not working.” –Holly Harmon, the AHCA Senior Vice President of Quality, Regulatory and Clinical Services. The Special Focus Facility, or SFF, was created in 1998 to encourage the worst nursing homes in the U.S. to improve their
OIG reports on the nursing home’s failure to report traumatic incidents to CMS. With the gross amount of neglect and abuse that takes place in nursing homes, tools such as CMS’s Care Compare website are needed to determine if a long-term care facility may be trusted in providing for your loved one. The website exists
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