Stop overlooking oversight at nursing homes
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
St. Louis, MO - Over the last five years, the number of serious problems detected in the nation’s nursing homes has dropped. After decades of stressing the need to protect vulnerable nursing home residents, that seemed like an overdue bit of good news. It wasn’t.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reported last week that nursing home inspectors are missing or overlooking serious safety problems that “cause actual harm or immediate jeopardy to patients.”
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