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5 Star Quality Nursing Home Rating System
December 18, 2008 2:07 PM
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Kelly Papa
This week CMS rolled out their 5 Star Quality Nursing Home rating system, and USA Today and the Associated Press have published stories about it. There are large debates going on about this system. There are great concerns that the data it reflects is
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Emotional Abuse of People with Alzheimer’s Disease
December 9, 2008 3:27 PM
by
Kelly Papa
Last week the Today Show aired a story on abuse in a nursing home in Minnesota . Two teenage girls are accused of emotionally abusing 15 residents who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. They allegedly spit in residents' mouths, groped, poked and taunted
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