The US News and World Report just compiled its top ten best and worst states for nursing home in the United States. It ranked Georgia nursing homes second worst, behind Louisiana which had the number 1 spot. The magazine created its list by examining the percentage of nursing homes in each state that received the federal government’s five-star rating. Only 6.5% of Georgia’s nursing homes received the five-star rating. The report states Georgia has 355 nursing homes, which means only 23 were rated five-star.
If you want to investigate nursing homes for your family or loved ones, you need to get on to the Nursing Home Compare website, which is maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The CMS uses three main criteria for scoring nursing homes: health inspection results, staffing, and individual quality measures. All of these factors come into play whenever there is a negligence case brought against a nursing home. Georgia nursing home attorneys are always on the lookout for whether inadequate staffing was to blame in any negligence case.
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