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N.C. nursing homes: Lots of good ones, lots of bad
Thursday, January 08, 2009
North Carolina has a slightly higher percentage of top-level nursing homes than the national average, but it also is home to about 25 percent more than its share of bottom-rank centers, according to new federal rankings.
The five-star online rating system introduced Thursday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees nursing home care, showed that 120 North Carolina nursing homes, or 28.6 percent, earned one star, the lowest level. Nationally, about 22 percent of homes ranked that low.
“You would hope that those types of issues would become a rarity and not commonplace,” said Mary Bethel, an AARP lobbyist who monitors long-term care issues in North Carolina. “You need to have an adequate supply of homes that are doing good quality of care.”
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