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- New Tool Allows Analysis Of Nursing-home Deficiencies Across The Country; Kentucky Seems To Rank High In Serious Problems
Reporters now have a tool at their fingertips that will allow them to find nursing home problems in facilities across Kentucky, which appears to ranks high in serious problems.(iStock photo) The tool was launched this week by ProPublica, a nonprofit,...
- Nursing Homes Want Panel To Review Lawsuits Against Them
"A long-term care industry group wants a new law in Kentucky that would create medical review panels to evaluable potential lawsuits against nursing homes, personal care homes and some facilities for the intellectually and developmentally disabled," reports...
- Nursing Home Ombudsman Program At Risk Because Of 'callous And Apparenly Clueless' Move By Feds, Advocate Writes
The Kentucky long-term care ombudsman program is at risk in Kentucky due to a change in federal policy. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is "quietly telling some state aging leaders that by Jan. 1 they will no longer be allowed to use civil...
- Inspectors Found 389 Deficiencies In 66 Kentucky Nursing Homes In Last Quarter Of 2010
Inspectors found 389 deficiencies at 66 Kentucky nursing homes in the last three months of 2010. Ten of the nursing homes inspected had 10 or more deficiencies. Two of them, one in Elizabethtown and one in Winchester, had none. Kentuckians for Nursing...
- 18 Percent Of Kentucky Nursing Homes Had 10 Or More Deficiencies In July-sept.; 42 Exceeded State Average Of Six
State inspectors found 20 of Kentucky's nursing homes, 18 percent of the total, had 10 or more deficiencies during the third quarter of 2010. Kentucky nursing homes have an average of six deficiencies, according to Medicare's nursing-home...
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Kentucky nursing homes rank 40th in the nation in new survey; reformers ask governor to create special task force for action
Kentucky got a D grade and a rank of 40th among the states in a new national survey of nursing-home care, and reform advocates are calling on Gov. Steve Beshear and other policymakers to take corrective action.
The state ranks lowest in the Southeast, the lowest ranked region, in nursing home care quality; one in five Kentucky nursing homes were cited as having a severe deficiency, "indicating widespread abuse, neglect and mistreatment of residents," says the report of the survey, created by a Florida-based advocacy group Families for Better Care.
"The results of this first-ever survey sadly represent real people, human beings being abused and neglected every day," writes Bernie Vonderheide, president of the Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform, the lobby that spearheaded the call for action. A representative of the Kentucky Association of Healthcare Facilities, the lobby for for-profit nursing homes in the state, was unavailable for comment.
The survey analyzed eight federal measures gauging nursing home care, and the state's nursing homes scored below average in five of the eight categories. For example, only a third of Kentucky facilities reported health inspections above average. Click here for more information or to see survey results.
In the letter to the governor, Vonderheide requested the creation of a special task force to address the issues, which they say affect thousands of Kentuckians, many who cannot speak up for themselves: "It?s time to stop this growing crisis in our state before it gets so big that we cannot manage it."
The state ranks lowest in the Southeast, the lowest ranked region, in nursing home care quality; one in five Kentucky nursing homes were cited as having a severe deficiency, "indicating widespread abuse, neglect and mistreatment of residents," says the report of the survey, created by a Florida-based advocacy group Families for Better Care.
"The results of this first-ever survey sadly represent real people, human beings being abused and neglected every day," writes Bernie Vonderheide, president of the Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform, the lobby that spearheaded the call for action. A representative of the Kentucky Association of Healthcare Facilities, the lobby for for-profit nursing homes in the state, was unavailable for comment.
The survey analyzed eight federal measures gauging nursing home care, and the state's nursing homes scored below average in five of the eight categories. For example, only a third of Kentucky facilities reported health inspections above average. Click here for more information or to see survey results.
In the letter to the governor, Vonderheide requested the creation of a special task force to address the issues, which they say affect thousands of Kentuckians, many who cannot speak up for themselves: "It?s time to stop this growing crisis in our state before it gets so big that we cannot manage it."
- New Tool Allows Analysis Of Nursing-home Deficiencies Across The Country; Kentucky Seems To Rank High In Serious Problems
Reporters now have a tool at their fingertips that will allow them to find nursing home problems in facilities across Kentucky, which appears to ranks high in serious problems.(iStock photo) The tool was launched this week by ProPublica, a nonprofit,...
- Nursing Homes Want Panel To Review Lawsuits Against Them
"A long-term care industry group wants a new law in Kentucky that would create medical review panels to evaluable potential lawsuits against nursing homes, personal care homes and some facilities for the intellectually and developmentally disabled," reports...
- Nursing Home Ombudsman Program At Risk Because Of 'callous And Apparenly Clueless' Move By Feds, Advocate Writes
The Kentucky long-term care ombudsman program is at risk in Kentucky due to a change in federal policy. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is "quietly telling some state aging leaders that by Jan. 1 they will no longer be allowed to use civil...
- Inspectors Found 389 Deficiencies In 66 Kentucky Nursing Homes In Last Quarter Of 2010
Inspectors found 389 deficiencies at 66 Kentucky nursing homes in the last three months of 2010. Ten of the nursing homes inspected had 10 or more deficiencies. Two of them, one in Elizabethtown and one in Winchester, had none. Kentuckians for Nursing...
- 18 Percent Of Kentucky Nursing Homes Had 10 Or More Deficiencies In July-sept.; 42 Exceeded State Average Of Six
State inspectors found 20 of Kentucky's nursing homes, 18 percent of the total, had 10 or more deficiencies during the third quarter of 2010. Kentucky nursing homes have an average of six deficiencies, according to Medicare's nursing-home...