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Nursing Home Rating System Reveals Inferior Care Provided At For-Profit Facilities

Posted by Jonathan Rosenfeld on December 18, 2008
Up and running.  Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) revealed its much anticipated website that provides nursing home ratings on a starred system--similar to restaurant and hotels.  The website actually provides three type of ratings for nursing homes throughout the country--based on overall quality, staffing and health inspections, plus and overall score.  Each section is scored on a scale of 1 to 5. In assigning each rating, CMS has evaluated tens of thousands of inspection reports, complaints, staffing level surveys, frequency of bedsores and use of physical restraints before assigning a star-ranking to the individual facility. A review of the nursing home... More
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Jonathan Rosenfeld is a lawyer who represents people injured in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.   Jonathan has represented...

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