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Nursing Homes: Improved Oversight Needed to Better Protect Residents from Abuse

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 23, 2019
Release Date July 23, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-671T
Summary:

To protect vulnerable nursing home residents from abuse, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts with state agencies—known as survey agencies—that can cite nursing homes for incidents of abuse.

While abuse in nursing homes is often underreported, we found that abuse citations more than doubled from 2013-2017. We also found that gaps in CMS’s oversight make it harder to protect residents. Oversight is critical in addressing and preventing abuse.

We testified on other key findings from our recent report and highlighted recommendations we made to CMS.

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