A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data regarding abuse in nursing homes across the country and found abuse deficiencies in nursing homes had more than doubled in a four year period. Increasing from 430 claims in 2013 to 875 for 2017, or 103.4 percent with the...National News
The minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance released an unfavorable nursing home report last week titled, “Sheltering in Danger.” The report is an account of the way in which nursing home residents were put at risk during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017 due to poor emergency planning.
Senators claimed the...