Nursing homes face daunting challenges: finding and keeping staff, caring for frail patients, complying with a host of federal and state rules and doing it all under financial constraints imposed by limited government payments that vary from state to state. As a result, quality varies widely among individual homes and among states, according to an analysis of the Medicare ratings by USA TODAY.
A consumer-focused article on the distribution of nursing homes with 1-star and 5-star in each state is online at USA Today. To view how well Mississippi nursing homes rated go online at : http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-12-18-nursinghomeinside_N.htm.Mississippi Nursing Home Ratings
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