Many Advocate Capital clients that have recognized that poor nursing home care is an issue in our country.
A recent report on NBC News highlights a story by the Center for Public Integrity, which reports that many nursing home patients in the US “may not be receiving the level of care their loved ones believe they’re getting.” Staffing levels “reported by thousands of nursing homes on a widely-used government website were higher than the staff levels calculated by the Center for Public Integrity through an analysis of annual financial reports submitted by the homes, suggesting that consumers in those facilities may not be getting as many hours of skilled care as they expect,” and experts “have shown that the amount of care provided by nursing homes is linked to the quality of care.” The discrepancies “raise profound questions about the accuracy of the information in the so-called Nursing Home Compare website that many consumers use to pick a nursing home for family members.” These discrepancies “occurred for all types of positions, but were particularly high for registered nurses, the most skilled and highest paid workers.”
The NBC News story can be read here.
The Center for Public Integrity story can be read here.