The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently reported that 32% of Medicare beneficiaries who went to learned nursing comforts (SNFs) and spent an normal of 15.5 days in a SNF in Aug 2011 gifted an inauspicious eventuality or other mistreat (Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries, OEI-06-11-00370 (Feb. 2014)). OIG has formerly reported deficiencies in hospitals, with 27% of patients in strident caring hospitals experiencing inauspicious events, nonetheless this is a initial inhabitant investigate of a most aloft SNF rate, that is means for good concern. The Center for Medicare Advocacy interjection a OIG for bringing courtesy to a bad caring that is preventable though gifted by distant too many nursing home residents.
Physician reviewers operative with OIG found that 59% of a inauspicious events and incidents of harm, including falls, vigour ulcers and remedy errors, were preventable. The Inspector General (IG) distributed that 1,538 residents died, 10,742 residents gifted mistreat and Medicare paid $208 million for hospitalizations of nursing home residents, only in a month of Aug 2011. “The Inspector General found that many inauspicious events and mistreat incidents were caused
