About 20% of the nation's 16,000 nursing homes are providing low quality care, finds a survey. Consistently, the worst care was provided by for-profit nursing home corporations and chains.
Ethicist Kirk O. Hanson, the Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California talks to IB news to try and make sense of the actions of abusive teen girls charged with harming elderly Alzheimer's patients.
Two teenage girls are facing years in jail and thousands in fines, charged with abusing and sexually humiliating elderly Alzheimer's disease and dementia nursing home patients who couldn't fight back. Other teens allegedly watched and said nothing.
Nursing homes inspected by federal inspectors last year turned up 94 percent in violation of some health or safety standard. The for-profit homes had the worse record, while a breakdown of states showed Rhode Island had the fewest violations. A five star rating system should be available on the web soon to rank facilities.
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