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By the end of March, nearly 80 percent of Georgia facilities had gone for at least 18 months without these comprehensive inspections, said the investigation report by CNHI, a newspaper company. Georgia’s backlog surpassed those of every other state, exceeding the 76 percent in Maryland and Oregon, and easily topping the national average of 51 percent. The CNHI data follow similar findings on Georgia inspections by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last fall. Inspection delays didn’t escape the attention of lawmakers. The fiscal year 2022 budget contains more than $12 million to beef up the inspection workforce and conduct more timely reviews of nursing homes. More than $7 million of that funding is “to help reduce staff turnover and increase staffing to reduce the backlog of the surveys’’ within the Georgia Department of Community Health, state Rep. Terry England, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, told GHN last week. The rest will pay for contract workers

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