Medicare has issued its report/survey of the nation's nursing homes.
One star ratings were the worst, and when it came to the percentage of one-stars per state, Kentucky was 33. However, Tennessee was 47, Indiana 45, West Virginia 40. Small consolation.
Here is a link to the USA Today story: click here
Some useful links from the story:
You can enter city and state and get a much more concise listing of the nursing homes in a particular area.
Click here for a map showing Kentucky surrounded by a sea of blue (not good).
Here is an extract of the chart showing the percentages for one-star homes (with those states with the worse percentages at the top!).
Here is a link to the official Medicare web site where you not only get information on selecting a nursing home, but can search the database to obtain individual results of the surveys.
You can search by name, zip, county, state.
BTW: Thanks goes to John Day at Day on Torts Blog whose post as it related to Tennessee nursing homes and this study gave me the heads up! Here is his post: Tennessee Nursing Homes Rank At the Bottom
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