Analysis of 5 Star Rating System by Nursing home Abuse Attorney
Nursing Home 5 Star Rating System: Moving our elders into a care facility is a difficult decision to take. It becomes even more complicated when we have to choose the best Elder Care facility for our loved ones . As research and choose the best care facility is a very time-consuming process. To overcome this problem, CMS (Center for Medicare services) launched Nursing Home 5- Star Rating System to evaluate Nursing Homes based on health inspections, quality measures, and staffing. The Nursing Facility has to record all the events occurred in the facility whether it’s positive or negative. Facility will gain the star with each positive event or lose with the bad one. Higher the rating, better the facility is. How Facilities are fooling the Rating System: T his 5-star rating system is far from perfect. As, Nursing Home submit the records by themselves and State authorities doesn’t even verify the reliability of the recorded data, so Nursing homes have the charge to modify their ...