McKnight's April 4, 2024
Nursing homes most often initiated a discharge because a resident’s behavior endangered the resident or others in the facility, a rationale fully within their rights, a government watchdog reported Wednesday.
But some are still not fully documenting facility-initiated discharges, undermining residents’ rights to appeal or plan for a move, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in a companion report.
Providers have long taken heat for the use of facility-initiated discharges — essentially evictions — which consumer advocates tend to portray as heartless decisions made for financial reasons. But the OIG reports on Wednesday found, a resident’s failure to pay was a documented factor in just 26% of 126 sample cases; most residents (62%) were instead asked...
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