Despite tracking detailed quality statistics on its nursing homes for years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has concealed these measures from the public — leaving veterans without critical health ...
Medicare’s nursing home ratings are one tool people can use to evaluate potential long-term care facilities. While they offer insight into staff levels and performance on health and quality ...
A new law to improve transparency in nursing home care has taken effect. The law requires nursing homes to prominently display their most recent star ratings for health inspections, staffing and ...
Choosing the right nursing homes for a loved one is one of the most significant decisions we ever make. While nearly 6 ...
After waiting more than nine months, skilled nursing providers are getting their first look at updated and unfrozen quality measures that are likely contributing to lower star ratings sector-wide.
The federal government accelerated its crackdown on nursing homes that go days without a registered nurse by downgrading the rankings of a tenth of the nation’s homes on Medicare’s consumer website, ...
Nursing homes are always under pressure to receive stellar online reviews. But the aggressive tactics of one Massachusetts facility has raised questions of how far they should go to get 5-star reviews ...
Here are five things to know: 1. To compile the list, S. News assessed more than 15,000 nursing homes nationwide using data from CMS’ Nursing Home Compare and ranked each facility on a scale of one to ...
A new analysis of publicly available federal data found that, since 2017, the quality of care at these facilities has been ...
For months I’ve investigated some of the worst nursing home conditions in the state. Now, I’m showing you the best so that ...
An attorney specializing in nursing-home abuse writes that the government’s five-star rating system for nursing homes is fundamentally flawed and allows bad actors to achieve high ratings.