MemberoftheFamily.net U.S. Nursing Home Information Registry Ratings ...
MemberoftheFamily.net provides information about 16,000 Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes in the United States, including ...
site: http://www.memberofthefamily.net/

Medicare.gov - Nursing Home Overview
Nursing Home Checklist: Provides a detailed checklist for rating different nursing homes visited based upon, Quality of Life, Quality of Care, ...
site: http://www.medicare.gov/Nursing/Overview.asp

Nursing Homes Skilled Care Assisted Living Long Term Care
Directory for assisted living, alzheimers care, retirement and nursing homes.
site: http://www.carepathways.com/

NURSING HOME INFORMATION SITE
... in nursing homes with a desire to help others with problems or questions related to nursing homes, Medicare, Medicaid ...
site: http://www.angelfire.com/tn/NursingHome/index.html

Medicare.gov - Nursing Home Compare - Geography Questions
Step 1 How would you like to search for a Nursing Home? ... for all nursing homes within a: By Proximity I want to search for all nursing ...
site: http://www.medicare.gov/Nhcompare/Home.asp

CareScout: Nursing homes, assisted living, home health agencies: ...
Ratings of elder care nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home health agencies, plus advice on senior health topics.
site: http://www.carescout.com/

Gannett News Service
Get patient care quality ratings for 16,000 nursing homes nationwide ... Nursing homes with unblemished records are rare ...
site: http://content.gannettonline.com/gns/nursinghomes/index.html

CareTALK? - Nursing Homes: Finding and Rating Them
RATING CARE AT NURSING HOMES The federal Medicare program provides detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare and ...
site: http://www.caretalk.com/en/planning/housing/options/nursing_homes_rating.html

Help In Rating Nursing Homes - CBS News
One in Three US Nursing Homes Cited for Abuse ... received by 2.9 million Americans in nursing homes. "Our first step is this pilot ...
site: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/25/health/main507287.shtml

HHS releases comparative data on nursing homes in six states - Updata - Health and Human Services - Brief Article
HHS has released data from a six-state pilot project of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative, a program aimed at providing consumers with access to comparative ...... (Continue Reading)

Study: home hospice better than nursing homes in end-of-life care
When researchers asked families to rate the care deceased loved ones received from their last provider, more than 70% considered home hospice services ...... (Continue Reading)

Validity and reliability of the Minimum Data Set Depression Rating Scale for older adults in nursing homes - MDSDRS - Author Abstract
Objective: this research examined the psychometric properties of the Minimum Data Set Depression Rating Scale for use among older adults living in nursing ...... (Continue Reading)

Development of a Minimum Data Set-based depression rating scale for use in nursing homes - Statistical Data Included
Background: depression is common but under-diagnosed in nursing-home residents. There is a need for a standardized screening instrument which incorporates ...... (Continue Reading)

Variations in hospitalization rates among nursing home residents: the role of discretionary hospitalizations - Methods - Illustration
Objective. To examine variations in hospitalization rates among nursing home residents associated with discretionary hospitalization practices.... (Continue Reading)

Fire safety: is your facility legal? The legal structure governing nursing home fire safety: a guide to self-examination
Federal regulations expect facilities to "be designed, constructed, equipped, and maintained to protect the health and safety of residents, personnel, ...... (Continue Reading)

NH scorecard: providers grade Washington's long-term care performance; Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management asked readers to give Washington's policymakers
Probably no industry in the country receives as much public criticism as long-term care (not even the press!). So what fun it is to put the shoe on the other foot and have the long-term care field... (Continue Reading)

A community focus on CNA performance - community forum organized to determine ways to improve the performance and commitment of Certified Nurse Aides in
What do CNAs need and want? These researchers convened a community forum to find out In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the key ...... (Continue Reading)

Get ready for industry scorecards - evaluation of nursing homes
To date, the nursing home industry has not been enthusiastic about the use of scorecards to help consumers evaluate nursing homes. When Consumer Reports ...... (Continue Reading)

Be prepared for the quality initiative: those CMS quality measures, and the newspaper publicity on how nursing homes rate, are going national this month
By now you should be quite familiar with the new quality measures (QMs) developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS has just ...... (Continue Reading)