Quality Nursing Home Care Lacking

August 2003

The General Accounting Office, the investigative branch of Congress, found that one in five (20%) nursing homes across the United States had serious deficiencies or occurrences of harm to residents. The study lasted 18 months and ended in January 2002. An earlier survey had reported 29% of nursing homes with occurrences of deficiencies or harm to residents.

Unfortunately, the actual number of deficiencies may be higher as complaints are not always investigated properly on the state level. For example, federal investigators found actual harm to residents in approximately one-fifth of nursing homes that state regulators had determined to be free of deficiencies.

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