Report: State Nursing Home Inspections Deficient
Friday, May 16th, 2008.
Glens Falls, NY - State nursing home inspectors fail to cite serious deficiencies such as malnutrition, bedsores and abuse in their annual inspections of facilities such as Eden Park Health Care Centers and other nursing homes across the country, according to a report issued this week by the Government Accountability Office.
The issuance of the report comes on the heel of purported investigations of two alleged wrongful deaths at the Eden Park nursing home in Glens Falls conducted by investigator Katy Kavarik of the state health department. Kavarik said she had reviewed the medical records of the two female patients in question and found nothing amiss, records that the nursing home controls without any outside review by family members or other oversight. Under contract with the federal government, state inspectors such as from the NYS Department of Health visit nursing homes annually. Nursing homes must meet federal standards to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. Nearly two thirds of the residents in the nation’s nursing homes are on Medicare or Medicaid at an annual cost of $75 billion.
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