Feds Slam Nursing Homes for '1-Star' Care

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 7, 2009 5:04 PM CST

(Newser) – Rife with mistreated patients and poor conditions, nearly one quarter of US nursing homes received 1 out of 5 stars in a new Washington rating program. “The conditions described are grim and, at times, deadly,” Sam Roe writes in the Chicago Tribune of... Read full story »

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