Nursing Home Reform
"Congressional investigators stress
need for nursing home reform"
There are still a high number of nursing home abuse
instances being reported, despite the large number
of unreported violations according to the General
Accounting Office. In addition to the problems of
nursing home abuse is the way the different state
health care agencies apply federal standards to homes.
Since many nursing home abuse inspectors are inexperienced,
the nursing home abuse reports and citations range
widely from state to state.
Although industry improvements have been made to
reduce the number of nursing home abuse reports in
a fast growing industry, 20% of the nation’s
nursing homes, which are around 3,500 homes, were
cited for harming patients or putting them at a high
risk of suffering serious injury from July 2000 through
2002. Nursing home advocate Sen. Charles Grassley
thinks that, “There’s a huge gap in quality
among nursing homes across America. There are homes
where tremendous care and compassion is provided,
and then there are homes where horrendous neglect,
abuse and preventable death exist.”
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Additional Nursing Home Abuse Articles:
March 16, 2005,
"Largest private nursing home fined for failing to report abuse"
November 24, 2004,
"Whistleblower nursing home abuse lawsuit settles"
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