Nursing Home Problems There Many Term Paper

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..significantly below the maximum of $3,000 per day" (and more like $300 to $350).

And fourth, in about 22% of the cases where nursing homes were in serious violation of regulations - and causing harm to their patients - "there was no record" of sanctions at all.

Conclusion: Given the widespread problem reviewed here in this paper, it seems reasonable that the federal government (with oversight by the Congress) should implement the recommendations of the GAO. One, there should be new legislation requiring the CMS administrator to "collect civil money penalties more expeditiously"; two, the policy of punishing nursing home violators needs to be greatly strengthened and enforced; three, the oversight of nursing homes that are frequently in violation of regulations should be expanded; and four, enforcement "data systems" need to be improved, so Congress and CMS administrators have up-to-date information on which nursing homes have received sanctions, how much they have paid, and if they were in compliance.
It is totally unacceptable for there to be only 69 instances of "immediate sanctions" over a 6-year period "despite being cited 444 times for deficiencies that harmed residents" (GAO 2007).

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