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From a disturbingly low starting point, the nursing home industry is making progress in improving quality ... maybe.
That was the decidedly mixed message that emerged from the latest in a series of oversight hearings on the topic held by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), first at the Senate Special Committee on Aging, then at the Finance Committee.
For the 18-month period ending in January 2002, according to a General Accounting Office report released at the July 17 hearing, about one in five nursing homes--representing roughly 3,500 facilities--were cited by state inspectors for "serious deficiencies that caused residents actual harm or placed...
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