Kentucky

Medicare has issued its report/survey of the nation's nursing homes.

One star ratings were the worst, and when it came to the percentage of one-stars per state, Kentucky was 33.  However, Tennessee was 47,  Indiana 45, West Virginia 40.  Small consolation.

Here is a link to the USA Today story:  click here

Some useful links from the story:

You can enter city and state and get a much more concise listing of the nursing homes in a particular area.

Click here for a map showing Kentucky surrounded by a sea of blue (not good).

Here is an extract of the chart showing the percentages for one-star homes (with those states with the worse percentages at the top!).

Here is a link to the official Medicare web site where you not only get information on  selecting a nursing home, but can search the database to obtain individual results of the surveys. 

You can search by name, zip, county, state.