Skilled Nursing News May 16, 2024
Hundreds of nursing homes continue to maintain or display high ratings despite Immediate Jeopardy incidents in the previous three years, and this can create headaches for both nursing homes and consumers alike.
According to a Scripps News analysis released Wednesday, which takes in to account government data from February 2024 of more than 14,000 nursing homes, there may be a lag of several months before the citations and corrections get filtered into the calculation for the star ratings, in turn misleading consumers.
But sector experts, who spoke to Skilled Nursing News, said that it’s common to see the lag because of the way the system is set up – and it can cause legal and financial problems for nursing...
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