"Nursing Home Location Determines Likelihood of Abuse"
June 9 , 2003
A Gannett News Service (GNS) investigation on the nation’s nursing homes has concluded that depending on what areas of the nation is very dependent on the type of care that the elders can expect to receive. Most instances of the most severe nursing home abuse reports over the past four years have occurred in about 12 concentrated states. In addition, the for-profit nursing homes were found to have more instances of nursing home abuse occurrences than nonprofit and government nursing homes.
The GNS findings have come from four-months of investigation, including interviewing and analysis of four years worth of federal data on 16,000 of the nation’s nursing homes. Based on the findings, the nation’s solution for putting an end to the nursing home abuse reports holding 1.5 million elders will not come easily. Individual states and the nation as a whole are currently trying to pass new bills that will better ensure nursing home abuse come to an end.
Consumer advocates have stated that the GNS results are not surprising. Repeat violations of nursing home abuse has been a contributing factor to the high nursing home abuse incidence, and despite new quality and information efforts supplemented by years of legislation and regulation to protect residents, far too many people are being adversely affected by nursing home abuse. The 12 states that were found to have the highest number of severe and repeated violations from 1999-2003 include:
- Texas
- Illinois
- Arkansas
- Washington
- New Jersey
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Indiana
- Oklahoma
- North Carolina
- Mississippi
- Tennessee
Some instances of the nursing home abuse indicated widespread problems in care.
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