Nursing homes: Business as usual; Two decades after the passage of a federal law to clean up the nation’s nursing homes, bad care persists and good homes are still hard to find
Monday, February 26th, 2007.
In 1987, Congress passed a landmark law meant to improve nursing home care for the elderly. But our investigation reveals that poor care is still all too common, especially at nursing homes run by for-profit chains, now the dominant force in the industry.
Consumer Reports’ analysis found that not-for-profit homes generally provide better care than for-profit homes, and that independently run nursing homes appear to provide better care than those that are owned by chains. In a separate study, we found that many states are lax in penalizing bad homes.
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