Care Suffers as More Nursing Homes Feed Money Into Corporate Webs. A January 2, 2018 New York Times article produced with Kaiser Health News examines how nursing home chains reap profits by contracting with companies they own or control.
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While nursing home regulators pat their backs for reduced antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes and turn their backs on continued misuse, one-in-five nursing residents still receive powerful antipsychotic drugs and many more are given other drugs to chemically restrain them.
New CANHR Issue Brief: Don’t Believe the Hype. While nursing home regulators pat their backs for reduced antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes and turn their backs on continued misuse, one-in-five nursing residents still receive powerful antipsychotic drugs and many more are given other drugs to chemically restrain them.
On December 24, 2017, the New York Times reported that the Trump Administration has scaled back the use of fines against nursing homes that harm residents or place them in grave risk of injury.
So says a Los Angeles Times and Kaiser Health News headline for an article published on December 21, 2017. The article reports that 74 percent of the nation’s nursing homes have been cited for infection control violations during the last four years.
Following more national news stories (from Forbes and the Washington Post) about illegal and inappropriate nursing home discharges, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a Survey and Certification memo announcing an initiative to address them.