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The Failures of For-Profit Nursing Homes

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published a report analyzing approximately 16,000 nursing homes in this country and assigned each a rating ? from one star to five stars - based on such criteria as health inspections and staffing.

In a less prolific blow then the other shots to the head delivered in 2008 to the theory that an unfettered free market is always the best answer, approximately 27 percent of for profit homes surveyed were given one star, versus 13 percent of non-profit homes. At the top of the nursing home food chain, 19% of non-profit homes were awarded five stars, compared with 9 percent of for profit homes. From this pretty overwhelming data, it is hard to argue that for profit nursing homes provide an equal level of nursing home care to that of non-profit homes. While I am not sure what the profit to non-profit nursing home ratio is in Maryland, I don?t think this conclusion shocks a single Maryland nursing home lawyer. The vast majority of Maryland nursing home cases are against private, for profit nursing homes.

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).