Nursing Homes and Violations
An average nursing home got 7 violations, studies indicate, with 94% of for profit homes likely to get them, 91% of government run homes, and 88% of non for profit homes.
Homes that accept medicare and medicaid are surveyed every 12 to 15 months and have shown these results.
They are not surprising however. Non for profit homes are usually the best choice because they do what they do for the residents and no other reason. For profit homes are businesses and skimp on as much as possible to increase their profits. The most crucial thing they skimp on is staff. By skimping on the number of Cna’s to residents they save themselves money but cut down on care. By skimping on the Cna’s salary they are skimpimg on quality of Cna’s. That has a lot to do with some of the care violations these homes are getting.
The states themselves set the standards at a minimum amount of staff to residents, and that’s what the for profit homes follow. If the states lowered the amount of residents per Cna they would all get better care.
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