Skilled Nursing News December 6, 2023
A federally commissioned report released Wednesday found that nursing homes in Louisiana failed to complete background checks on a portion of their non-licensed employees.
In conducting the audit to examine whether Louisiana nursing homes complied with federal requirements for backgrounds checks, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) chose a sample of 9 Louisiana nursing homes out of a total of 276 licensed facilities in the state, basing its sample size on a variety of risk factors and on the need to select nursing homes in urban and rural settings, the agency said. Data was examined for the period between October 1, 2019, to June 30, 2022.
From the 9 nursing homes, OIG reviewed background checks for 209 non-licensed employees and...
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