Thursday, December 18, 2008

New national nursing home rating system compares care

From Freep:

More than one in five of Michigan's 417 nursing homes
received failing grades for good care, staffing and deficiencies cited
in state inspections, according to a groundbreaking new system unveiled
today by the federal government's Medicare agency.The www.medicare.gov/nhcompare site will be updated four times a year.....

Sixteen nursing homes in tri-county metro Detroit received top
grades. Marywood Nursing Care Center, a small, nonprofit Livonia
nursing home and assisted living center with 117 beds, got the highest
scores in the tri-county area.

For a complete list of Michigan facilities and their scores, go to www.freep.com/data.cq-anstett
Thirty-three other nursing homes in tri-county metro Detroit got the
lowest scores, including five Heartland facilities in Bloomfield Hills,
Grosse Pointe Woods, Dearborn Heights and Livonia that are part of HCR
ManorCare of Toledo. Livonia has two Heartland facilities....

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