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Tag: nursing home quality indicators
A New Resource for Finding Information about the Quality of Nursing Homes
I recently came across a resource for family and friends faced with having to find a nursing home for a loved one.åÊ The Informed Patient Institute (IPI) is a non-profit organization that has identified and evaluated all of the nursing home report cards in the country.åÊ IPI doesn’t rate individual...
Are Accredited Nursing Homes Safer? (VIDEO)
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Are Accredited Nursing Homes Safer?
A new study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety entitled ÛÏSafety Culture ÛÒ Relationship Between Nursing Home Safety Culture and Joint Commission AccreditationÛ suggests that nursing homes accredited by The Joint Commission have a more robust culture of resident safety than non-accredited facilities and has a...
For Profits and Private Investor Nursing Homes Have More Deficiencies
The Government Accountability Office, examining whether the quality of care in a nursing home suffers after an acquisition, found that nursing homes owned by private investors and other types of for-profit operators had more total deficiencies than homes run by public companies. The report found that on average,æ privately owned...