Three Iowa nursing homes have been added to the federal government’s list of the worst care facilities in the nation. Over the past two months, the three homes were deemed eligible for inclusion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ national list of Special-Focus Facilities. They join seven other Iowa care facilities already deemed […] The post Iowa nursing homes added to national list of worst care facilities appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
The fines represent penalties imposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and typically stem from quality-of-care violations reported by state inspectors. Although CMS publicly reports the fines imposed against all Medicare-certified nursing facilities, the agency does not disclose whether such fines have actually been paid.
A federal report suggests Iowa has one of the nation’s worst ratios of nursing home inspectors to care facilities, and that the state’s use of private contractors to inspect homes
A federal report suggests Iowa has one of the nation’s worst ratios of nursing home inspectors to facilities and that the use of private contractors is extraordinarily costly to taxpayers.
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