Rating Nursing Homes
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/business/nursing-homes-ratings-medicare-covid.html
Twelve years ago, the U.S. government introduced a powerful new tool to help people make a wrenching decision: which nursing home to choose for loved ones at their most vulnerable. Using a simple star rating — one being the worst, five the best — the system promised to distill reams of information and transform an emotional process into one based on objective, government-blessed metrics.
The star system quickly became ubiquitous, a popular way for consumers to educate themselves and for nursing homes to attract new customers. During the coronavirus pandemic, with many locked-down homes unavailable for prospective residents or their families to see firsthand, the ratings seemed indispensable.
But a New York Times investigation, based on the most comprehensive analysis of the data that powers the ratings program, found that it is broken.
Despite years of warnings, the system provided a badly distorted picture of the quality of care at the nation’s nursing homes. Many relied on sleight-of-hand maneuvers to improve their ratings and hide shortcomings that contributed to the damage when the pandemic struck.
More than 130,000 nursing-home residents have died of Covid-19, and The Times’s analysis found that people at five-star facilities were roughly as likely to die of the disease as those at one-star homes.
Guess who's not mentioned in the article. Granted it's a national story, but...c'mon man!
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/business/nursing-homes-ratings-medicare-covid.html
Twelve years ago, the U.S. government introduced a powerful new tool to help people make a wrenching decision: which nursing home to choose for loved ones at their most vulnerable. Using a simple star rating — one being the worst, five the best — the system promised to distill reams of information and transform an emotional process into one based on objective, government-blessed metrics.
The star system quickly became ubiquitous, a popular way for consumers to educate themselves and for nursing homes to attract new customers. During the coronavirus pandemic, with many locked-down homes unavailable for prospective residents or their families to see firsthand, the ratings seemed indispensable.
But a New York Times investigation, based on the most comprehensive analysis of the data that powers the ratings program, found that it is broken.
Despite years of warnings, the system provided a badly distorted picture of the quality of care at the nation’s nursing homes. Many relied on sleight-of-hand maneuvers to improve their ratings and hide shortcomings that contributed to the damage when the pandemic struck.
More than 130,000 nursing-home residents have died of Covid-19, and The Times’s analysis found that people at five-star facilities were roughly as likely to die of the disease as those at one-star homes.
Guess who's not mentioned in the article. Granted it's a national story, but...c'mon man!
I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home.
I will make sure my kids don’t have to send me to one.
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I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home.
I will make sure my kids don’t have to send me to one.
@loki said in Rating Nursing Homes:
I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home.
Good news/Bad news - You'll die either way.
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@loki said in Rating Nursing Homes:
I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home.
Good news/Bad news - You'll die either way.
@doctor-phibes said in Rating Nursing Homes:
You'll die either way.
That's basically what Cuomo said, "They're going to die anyway."
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I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home.
I will make sure my kids don’t have to send me to one.
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@doctor-phibes said in Rating Nursing Homes:
@loki said in Rating Nursing Homes:
I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home.
Good news/Bad news - You'll die either way.
Yeah, but it will be autonomously versus in an undead government funded facility.
