Nursing Home Ads Pose As Official State Advice
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9 responses to “Nursing Home Ads Pose As Official State Advice”
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Well, it’s in keeping with a move to privatizing, no? I’m sure you can trace the handoff in the links from State to State-funded to free ad page directly to a series of budget cuts.
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Interesting supposition. Do you have anything to back it up?
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Sadly, I don’t. But, you’ve surely seen this before. You cannot have spent 30 years in the Navy and have not seen four contractors replace two civil servants who were doing a job that a sailor used to do. Oh, wait. That’s a ballooning budget.
COTS. That’s the ticket. Commercial Off-The-Shelf. It’s just that nobody did quality control until you.
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Was that a rant against 8(a)’s?
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Posting the ratings that taxpayers fund would be a very good thought indeed. Haven’t we pretty much assumed that old people still living are diminished in capacity? The scam didn’t count on more baby boomers living longer and healthier, not to mention wiser about the internet and government. Good job Mr. Sherlock!
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Thank you. I sent a note to the key players at the state level and at the non-profit that included a link to this article. I hope they will make the change. It is an easy one. It will be hard to explain avoiding doing so.
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I agree with your that an agency that is supposed to be providing help to seniors would be helping senior and their families a lot if it included the Medicare ratings in its listing of nursing homes. I suspect that it does not do this is a reflection of the general reluctance of state agencies to recommend a private vendor over another. To do so could lead to charges of favoritism, political or otherwise. However, to list nursing homes as if they are all equal and to allow the nursing homes themselves to write their own descriptions constitutes a disservice to the very senior citizens the agency is supposed to be helping
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Anyone can view the DSS quality star ratings and view findings for social services visits for all licensed day care centers. Let’s hope VDOE doesn’t muck it up now that it is in their bailiwick.
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Your point about state agencies not wishing to favor individual businesses is as usual thoughtful.
As you indicate, this is a special case, however.
The Virginia Department of Health conducts the inspections and delivers the findings that form the basis for the Medicare ratings. For DARS to publish a guide to nursing homes targeted at seniors without those star ratings constitutes dereliction.
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