Aging

President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging comments on Report on Nursing Home Oversight

Published in Patient Care Law Weekly, May 13th, 2007

The GAO's latest report on nursing home oversight comes to a conclusion that we can all support: there should be two types of nursing homes: the excellent and the non-existent.

Quality should be an automatic public expectation. We want to see substandard owners and managers displaced, not nursing home residents and employees. Ideally, a well-performing nursing home would acquire or manage a poorly performing provider. This decision would allow residents to avoid the complicated, and sometimes traumatic, transfer process and keep staff on the job.

Within the current enforcement system, however, providers who take over these facilities are required to...

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Source: Patient Care Law Weekly (2007-05-13)

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