Alabama makes progress in nursing home inspection backlog
Friday, June 6th, 2008.
Birmingham, AL - The Alabama Department of Public Health expects to eliminate by the end of September a backlog of nursing home inspections that has plagued the state for years, officials said.
The progress comes after criticism from the federal government, and is the result of hiring more inspectors and opening two branch offices to help regulate the state’s 233 nursing homes, said Rick Harris, director of the department’s bureau of health provider standards.
Harris said that in addition to catching up for the first time in years on annual nursing home inspections, as required by federal law, Public Health officials have eliminated a backlog of investigations into complaints about nursing homes.
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