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"Congressional investigators stress need for nursing home reform"
July 21, 2003
There are still a high number of nursing home abuse instances being reported, despite the large number of unreported violations according to the General Accounting Office. In addition to the problems of nursing home abuse is the way the different state health care agencies apply federal standards to homes. Since many nursing home abuse inspectors are inexperienced, the nursing home abuse reports and citations range widely from state to state.
Although industry improvements have been made to reduce the number of nursing home abuse reports in a fast growing industry, 20% of the nation’s nursing homes, which are around 3,500 homes, were cited for harming patients or putting them at a high risk of suffering serious injury from July 2000 through 2002. Nursing home advocate Sen. Charles Grassley thinks that, “There’s a huge gap in quality among nursing homes across America. There are homes where tremendous care and compassion is provided, and then there are homes where horrendous neglect, abuse and preventable death exist.”
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