Morningstar, a popular publication from the renowned Chicago investment firm of the same name, recently culled together a list of “50 must-know statistics” from the world of long-term care.(For those who can’t access the latest data, you can find last year’s statistics, which chart similar numbers, in Morningstar’s archive.) Together, they paint a picture of… Read More »
Posts Categorized: Nursing Homes
Twenty-Five Percent of America’s Nursing Homes Harbor MRSA
We turn to nursing homes when our loved ones need more constant or aggressive healthcare. It’s horrifying to think, then, that the nursing home might be the place they contract a potentially life-threatening infection. And yet a startling new study finds that more than a quarter of U.S. nursing homes harbor MRSA. View image |… Read More »
Nursing Homes Must Now Work Harder to Get a Good Grade
If Medicare were a classroom, nursing homes would earn an “easy A.” Or that’s how it used to be, at least. But now a brand-new rule is changing all that, and America’s mistreated seniors stand to benefit. View image | gettyimages.com Under the old Medicare rating system, nursing homes were assigned scores of up to… Read More »