Nearly half, or 60 of the VA’s 133 nursing homes received a one-star rating, the newspaper reported.
The results were disclosed after USA Today and Boston Globe obtained the internal VA reports, officials said. On average, VA nursing homes scored worse last year then their private sector counterparts on nine of 11 key indicators, including rates of anti-psychotic drug prescription and residents’ deterioration , officials said.
The VA nursing home system overall compares “closely”with private nursing homes despite caring for typically sicker patients,
VA officials reportedly told USA Today.
Sixty VA nursing homes saw improvements in their ratings over last year, and only one had a “meaningful decline” VA spokesman Curt Cashour told the newspaper.
A request for comment was left with a Dayton VA spokesman Monday.
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