The release of the Government Accountability Office’s report on nursing home reviews has triggered a series of articles and investigations on the quality of care-facility examinations.
Before the official report release, authorities stated that the GAO found that serious care problems were overlooked or not cited during annual nursing home investigations. As a result, [...]

Researchers from the Government Accountability Office are releasing a report today on the investigation of care in nursing homes nationwide.  The report’s conclusions have already been published: investigators routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients.
According to preliminary announcements, researchers found widespread “understatement of deficiencies,” including malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of [...]