Sunday, February 12, 2012

What We Should Expect Out of Our Nursing Homes

Nursing homes seem to be in the news every day.  First in late September, the New York Times reported about the declining quality of care in nursing homes across the country as a result of their purchase by big investment firms.  Now a list of 54 poor-performing nursing homes in the U.S. ha...
11/30/07 10:23pm

Thanks Dorian.  Your quote from Hubert Humphrey sums it all up for me.  

 

All the Best, SMM 

11/30/07 10:34pm

Make sure to read Carol Bradley Bursack's and MK's post on this topic.

 

SMM 

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12/ 3/07 5:14am

as usual, the best course is accepting responsibility for ones own self, leaving the "policy makers" and "for profit" types to play in someone elses sandbox.  If you want the minimum standard, rely on these others, but expecting anything other than dissapointing results is not realistic.  There are to many conflicts of interest and variables in the planning stages.  Life is not supposed to be easy.           JM

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