Hey guys good to be back in San Diego after the Maui and Oahu trip to check on some real estate over there. according to government statistics.
An interesting and telling article was published a couple of years ago in the new York City based newspaper that we all know, the New York Times, under the title, “ Violations Reported at 94% of Nursing Homes,” written by Robert Pear, it appeared September 29, 2008.
All in all, the article in question said that more than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards in 2007. It said that for-profit homes were more liable to have problems than non-profits, and even government-affiliated real estate homes, according to federal investigator. Whether we are talking about New York City or Maui real estate
the situation is rather dire indeed. In fact I foresee a day when the lawyer general may get more involved in the problem.
Robert Pear quoted the report as stating that roughly 17 percent of nursing homes had problems that caused “actual harm or immediate jeopardy.” The report was provided by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, Daniel R. Levinson. Better upgrade those insurance policies.
Apparently some of the problems identified ranged from infected bedsores, medication mix-ups, poor nutrition, to abuse and neglect of patients by the staff. Not to change the subject or anything but I think that folks should invest in more Maui and Oahu Real estate or at least more real estate in general overall.
Further, Pear wrote that inspectors received 37,150 complaints about conditions in nursing homes in 2007. Thirty-nine percent of them were substantiated, according to the report, and about one-fifth of the complaints confirmed by federal and state authorities included abuse or neglect of patients.
Pear adds that the inspector general states that 94 percent of for-profit nursing homes were cited for deficiencies in 2007, 88 percent were nonprofit homes, and 91 percent were government nursing homes.
Pear quoted inspector general Levinson as saying, “For-profit nursing homes had a higher average number of deficiencies than the other types of nursing homes…..” Some of the places in San Diego, for example are so bad you don’t even know.A friend of mine who is a san diego plastic surgeon was telling me about it.
In a discovery that seems obvious and intuitive, Pear reports that researchers have shown that people get better care at homes with a higher ratio of nursing staff members to patients. Duh.
Pear reported that the inspector general said there were some instances where the homes billed Medicare and Medicaid for services that were not actually provided, or were so completely poor that they “amounted to no care at all.”
