Nursing Home Abuse Reports
"Nursing home
location determines likelihood of abuse"
A Gannett News Service (GNS) investigation on the
nation’s nursing homes has concluded that depending
on what areas of the nation is very dependent on the
type of care that the elders can expect to receive.
Most instances of the most severe nursing home abuse
reports over the past four years have occurred in
about 12 concentrated states. In addition, the for-profit
nursing homes were found to have more instances of
nursing home abuse occurrences than nonprofit and
government nursing homes.
The GNS findings have come from four-months of investigation,
including interviewing and analysis of four years
worth of federal data on 16,000 of the nation’s
nursing homes. Based on the findings, the nation’s
solution for putting an end to the nursing home abuse
reports holding 1.5 million elders will not come easily.
Individual states and the nation as a whole are currently
trying to pass new bills that will better ensure nursing
home abuse come to an end.
Consumer advocates have stated that the GNS results
are not surprising. Repeat violations of nursing home
abuse has been a contributing factor to the high nursing
home abuse incidence, and despite new quality and
information efforts supplemented by years of legislation
and regulation to protect residents, far too many
people are being adversely affected by nursing home
abuse. The 12 states that were found to have the highest
number of severe and repeated violations from 1999-2003
include:
- Texas nursing home abuse
- Illinois nursing home abuse
- Arkansas nursing home abuse
- Washington nursing home abuse
- New Jersey nursing home abuse
- Kansas nursing home abuse
- Missouri nursing home abuse
- Indiana nursing home abuse
- Oklahoma nursing home abuse
- North Carolina nursing home abuse
- Mississippi nursing home abuse
- Tennessee nursing home abuse
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