Increased Number of Arizona Nursing Homes are in “Immediate Jeopardy”
By nursing-home-lawyer | June 5, 2007
Here’s an well-researched article about the increasing trouble in Arizona nursing homes due to lack of funding and an aging population:
Nursing home troubles escalate
Its a growing problem in Arizona nursing homes: Conditions so alarming that state inspectors will not leave until the troubles are fixed.Inspectors have discovered elderly patients suffering because they don’t get the right medicine and seniors living in fear of reprisals from abusive employees. The number of Arizona nursing homes found to be in that kind of “immediate jeopardy” has spiked in the past two years.
In 2006, 11 facilities, or 13 percent of Arizona’s nursing homes, were found in immediate jeopardy during annual inspections, up from two in 2005 and one or two in preceding years.
So far this year, three facilities have received the designation - the worst-possible rating for a nursing home.
State health officials say they are surprised and concerned by the increase. Nursing-home advocates and operators say the spike is triggered by a lack of funding. They say the state needs more money to better monitor homes, and the homes must be paid more to care for residents.
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