Kaiser Health News has released an analysis of Medicare's star ratings for staffing levels at the 15,000 plus nursing homes in the U.S. Almost 10% of these homes received the lowest evaluation. Why?They were either inadequately staffed with registered nurses or failed to provide payroll data that proved they had the required nursing coverage.
The biggest gap was in the number of registered nurses at a facility. They are required to have a registered nurse working at least eight hours every day. For-profit homes did worse than non-profit, they averaged 16 percent fewer staff than did nonprofits.
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