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HealthGrades, a company devoted to tracking nursing home quality, said in its latest report that U.S. nursing homes are not showing much improvement in the way residents are being treated.
According to the Colorado based company, problems causing harm to nursing home residents declined only slightly from 2003 to 2004, from 7 percent to 6.5 percent of complaints. Reports included pressure sores, accidents and patient abuse, according to the company.
Accidents were cited for about 25 percent of all harm to patients, and according to Dr. Samantha Collier, VP of medical affairs for HealthGrades, “we are not seeing the declines in actual harm to the nation’s 1.6 million nursing home residents that we should.”
Collier said the best nursing homes tend to have nearly half as many beds as the worst ones. Nursing homes in the top 10 for quality typically had around 74 beds compared to 132 beds for nursing homes ranking in the bottom 10.
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