Critical report finds surveys are too soft
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008.
New York, NY - Nursing homes received another quality drubbing last month after the Government Accountability Office revealed that state inspectors often understate deficiencies, including those about malnutrition, bedsores and abuse, in their annual facility inspection reports.
State surveyors missed at least one serious deficiency in 15% of the inspections checked by federal officials, according to the GAO report, which was released on May 15. In nine states, inspectors missed problems in more than 25% of the surveys analyzed from 2002 to 2007.
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