Health and Disability

By Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Updated Aug. 14, 2012

Use this tool to search over 20,000 nursing home inspection reports, most completed since January 2011 and encompassing nearly 118,000 deficiencies. | Related Story: Search Nursing Home Inspection Reports With Our New Interactive Tool.

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Search Nursing Home Inspection Reports With Our New Interactive Tool

by Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger, ProPublica

We’ve made it easy to search nearly 118,000 deficiencies found during government inspections at 14,565 nursing homes nationwide.

Tipsheet: How to Use Nursing Home Inspect

by Charles Ornstein

A collection of tips, sample searches, and details about how to get the best results from your inspection report searches.

Deficiencies by Severity

Click on a bar to narrow your search by severity.

(What do the severity ratings mean?)

3,829

B

3,654

C

66,899

D

30,827

E

6,730

F

3,880

G

317

H

13

I

773

J

680

K

177

L

Severity Scores

least seriousmost serious

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Serious Deficiencies by State

"K" and "L" deficiencies by state.

Click on a bar to see all deficiences in that state.

183

TX

78

NY

59

OK

45

KY

45

SC

43

AR

38

LA

37

IL

35

TN

30

FL

27

CA

26

IN

19

GA

19

WV

15

WI

14

MS

14

WA

14

MI

13

AL

13

OH

11

NJ

8

MN

8

CO

7

NM

6

DC

6

UT

4

VI

4

NC

4

PA

4

MT

4

NH

3

AZ

3

AK

3

PR

2

KS

2

SD

2

NE

2

MO

2

CT

2

MD

1

IA

1

VA

1

ME

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A group of Alzheimer's patients treated for 3 years with an immunotherapy drug showed no symptom decline over the treatment period. The patients were taking part in a small placebo-controlled phase 2 trial testing Baxter's intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) as an immunotherapy for Alzheimer's.

Changes in gait, such as slower walking or a more variable stride and rhythm, may be early signs of mental impairments that can develop into Alzheimer's before such changes can be seen on neuropsychological tests, said researchers at a conference this week. They suggest diagnosing changes in gait could alert doctors to begin testing for cognitive decline.

Professor Yardley's urgent appeal comes after her study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and published in the British Medical Journal, revealed that the exercises, such as turning your head right to left and back again or nodding your head up and down, led to reduced dizziness within a matter of weeks of starting, and the benefits lasted for at least a year.

Dizziness is a common condition, especially among older people, but it can affect any age. It can interfere with people's daily activities and cause stress. It also increases the risk of falling and fear of falling, which in turn, can result in substantial further limitation of activity, injury, and healthcare costs.

The researchers, appointed in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, added rapamycin to the diet of healthy mice throughout the rodents' life span. Rapamycin, a bacterial product first isolated from soil on Easter Island, enhanced learning and memory in young mice and improved these faculties in old mice, the study showed.

"We made the young ones learn, and remember what they learned, better than what is normal," said Veronica Galvan, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the UT Health Science Center. "Among the older mice, the ones fed with a diet including rapamycin actually showed an improvement, negating the normal decline that you see in these functions with age."

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Today, many hospitals are filled to capacity, and as a consequence, physicians are continually pressured to discharge their patients as quickly as possible. Because of inefficiencies in how they communicate with case managers, nurses, and patients, patients are frequently discharged with many loose ends.

Recognizing these realities, the new Medicare reimbursement rules will force hospitals and doctors to give a 30-day guarantee for any hospital treatment. If the patient is readmitted within 30 days for the same ailment, Medicare won't pay the hospital. Here are a few things you, the patient, need to know now about these changes:

Soaring numbers of older, sicker prisoners are causing an unprecedented health care challenge for the nation's criminal justice system, according to a new UCSF report.

As the American penal system confronts a costly demographic shift toward older prisoners, the authors call for an overhaul in health care practices for elderly inmates who disproportionately account for escalating medical expenses behind bars. The recommendations include screening for dementia among prisoners, improved palliative care, and standard policies for geriatric housing units for infirm inmates

Many people who cope with chronic pain know that going to work (if the pain is bearable) and keeping busy can help keep their minds off the pain and actually reduce it. At the same time, they know that staying home with nothing to do but think about the pain can make it worse.

Now, a new study has shown just how distraction reduces pain—and it’s not purely psychological. The study, published in the June issue of Current Biology, found that distraction causes a physiological cascade of events that work not just on the brain but on the spinal cord.  

Today there are over 9 million Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in the United States.To provide a greater understanding of the Medicare-Medicaid enrollee population, CMS has put together State profiles that examine the demographic characteristics, utilization, and spending patterns of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees and the programs that serve them in each State.

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