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nursing home compare
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How are ACA’s quality measures affecting health care?
On a recent What the Health podcast, where I’m a frequent guest, we took some listeners’ questions. One was about…
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Calif. nursing homes cut staff despite public money
CaliforniaWatch’s Christina Jewett and Agustin Armendariz put some serious time into an investigation of the results of a 2004 law…
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Express-News investigates Texas nursing homes
San Antonio Express-News reporters Karisa King, John Tedesco and Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje took advantage of a number of tools to…
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1 in 5 nursing homes pull consistently bad ratings
USA Today‘s Jack Gillum crunched the numbers and found that one-fifth of U.S. nursing homes have received two consecutive poor…
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GAO looks into why nursing home evals are flawed
The Government Accountability Office has followed up its May 2008 report that found a high level of inconsistency in nursing…
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Scripps finds inequalities in nursing home care
Lee Bowman and Thomas Hargrove of Scripps Howard News Service looked into nursing homes around the country and found the…
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600-plus Ill. patients drugged without consent
After a review of 40,000+ inspection reports for Illinois nursing homes, the Chicago Tribune‘s Sam Roe reports that the paper…
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Trib looks into dangerous nursing home residents
The Chicago Tribune‘s Gary Marx and David Jackson examined the effectiveness of Illinois regulations implemented in 2006 to protect nursing…
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GAO: Four percent of nursing homes are troubled
A new report from the Government Accountability Office report estimates that 580, or 4 percent, of America’s approximately 16,000 nursing…
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Glitch kept data out of Nursing Home Compare
Duane Schrag of the Salina (Kan.) Journal reports on problems he found in the data behind Nursing Home Compare, the…