Nursing home inspection reports leave gaps
If you want to check on conditions at a Florida nursing home where your elderly loved one is living, you might be surprised at what you don’t find in state inspection reports that are legally required to be open to the public.
Like dates. Or places. Or pivotal words.
“On Sunday morning,” one such report reads, “--------- at 6:30 a.m., she stated she entered the resident’s ---------, found the resident in the bathtub, with the water running, slumped over and ----------.”
The leader of a national watchdog group, Brian Lee of Families For Better Care, calls the heavily censored reports — which cover inspections of nursing homes and assisted living facilities — “shocking.” He first noticed a difference in the amount of information withheld late last year.
“The state is stripping these reports of critical information that the public would use to make sense of what is happening,” Lee said.
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