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Nursing Home Rating System
Posted on Jan 29, 2009
Starting in December 2008, the Nursing Home Compare website operated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will give nursing homes a star rating, between 1-5 stars.
The Nursing Home Compare website already provides consumers with information about past complaint investigations, surveys, and penalties issued against individual nursing homes. However, the current system can be confusing for patients and their families. The star rating system should provide a simpler means to assess the quality of care provided in a nursing home.
In addition to assisting nursing home patients and their families in choosing a nursing home, we hope the star rating system will lead nursing homes to improve the quality of care provided to patients. Nursing homes know that consumers have choices and no one wants to put a family member in a one star nursing home.
Click here to go to the Nursing Home Compare website.