Nursing Homes Abuse Blog - State Steps In After Second Episode Involving Patient Elopmement At Same Facility - Comments http://www.nursinghomesabuseblog.com/ Jonathan Rosenfeld's Nursing Homes Abuse Blog : Jonathan Rosenfeld's Nursing Homes Abuse Blog | Lawyer & Attorney : Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers | Bed Sores, Senior Neglect, Elder Abuse, Sexual Abuse: Chicago, Illinois en Copyright 2011 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:55:11 -0600 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:55:11 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Barry Doyle Of course, you also have to assume that nursing homes are interested in learning from their mistakes. I don't always think that is true. I have heard too many administrators and DON's talk about plans of correction after prior citations as being just something that they had to do to resolve the citation, and could not describe how they went about actually implementing the plan of correction. Not being interested in getting things done right is how you end up with the same mistakes happening again and again.

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Point well taken. Is it just a coincidence that we continue to see the same facilities getting sued over and over again. Of course not!

I believe change really starts from the top to the bottom. Until nursing home owners and management make patient care a priority and give the staff on the front-lines of patient care the proper tools (and staffing levels) to do their job properly, the cycle of poor care will continue.

Hopefully, the more attention that gets heaped on poorly performing facilities will result in public demand for better care. Until this happens, I fear that many facilities that have a culture of poor care will endure.

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