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Kentucky Nursing Home Neglect Attorney

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Kentucky Nursing Home Neglect Attorney

1/7/2009
Hans G. Poppe
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10 Worst States for Overall Nursing Home Staffing...

Following up on a prior post about the 10 Worst States for Nursing Home Nurse Staffing, I thought I'd follow up and reveal the 10 Worst States for Overall Staffing (not limited to nurses). Again, surprisingly, Kentucky was not in the top ten.

According to US News and World Report:

Nursing Homes: 10 Worst States for Overall Staffing

Low nurse turnover and high quality of nursing care are vital to the well being of home residents

By Avery Comarow , Megan Johnson

Posted December 19, 2008

Yesterday, the federal government rolled out a revamped and simplified approach to its evaluations of nursing homes, in order to make the onerous task of choosing the right one easier for families. Like the system the government uses for rating Medicare health and drug plans, the Nursing Home Compare site now gives nursing homes from 1 to 5 stars, overall and in each of three areas—performance in the latest three quarterly reports in 10 key quality measures, such as the percentage of residents with urinary tract infections; performance in the latest three annual health inspections; and adequacy of both overall staffing and staffing by registered nurses.

The following 10 states have the highest percentages of nursing homes with the worst rating of 1 star for adequate overall staffing.

Rank	State	Total, all nursing homes	1 star
1	Louisiana	269	62.5 percent
2	Georgia	342	57.6 percent
3	Tennessee	293	44.7 percent
4	Texas	1,042	41.4 percent
5	Virginia	263	39.2 percent
6	Indiana	482	38.6 percent
7	New Mexico	46	37.0 percent
8	West Virginia	123	33.3 percent
9	Missouri	489	31.1 percent
10	North Carolina	386	30.3 percent