Canadian researchers published a study in the British Medical Journal in which they examined 82 studies carried out in the United States and Canada from 1965 to 2003 comparing quality between for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes. Forty studies showed significantly better quality in not-for-profit homes and three showed the quality...
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Nursing Home Compare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out its 5-Star Rating System on Nursing Home Compare, the federal government’s site for consumer research on nursing homes. The rating system is based on information from the last three years of surveys and complaints, staffing information collected at survey and...
Bonus for Bad Work – Give Me That Job
As has been reported by many sources, The Des Moines Register is reporting that nursing homes throughout the country are eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bonuses despite past violations of basic health-and-safety standards. A review of 81 bonus payment programs in 36 states shows that some...
CMS Proposes Hotel Rating for Nursing Homes
In a continued effort to separate the good from the bad CMS plans to add a five star rating system to its Nursing Home Compare site. They will decide how many stars each nursing home gets by using data from the past three years of inspections, several measures of quality...
Quality Data – The Public Does Not Believe
Consumers using the Internet trust Web sites providing illness cause and treatment data, but are wary of Web sites providing quality information, according to research presented in an America‘s Health Insurance Plans online seminar. Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions contracted with Change Sciences Group to conduct the online interactive survey. More...