Discover Out Who Owns a Nursing Residence With Our Nursing Residence Examine Device — ProPublica
The standard of care that residents obtain in a nursing dwelling may be profoundly affected by who owns it, studies have shown. It’s not at all times clear who needs to be held accountable, although: Many nursing properties are owned by corporations which can be owned by different corporations, obscuring who has the last word decision-making energy. As more nursing homes are sold, details about an incoming proprietor’s efficiency in different properties turns into extra related, as it could present perception into how their newest acquisitions will fare.
To assist navigate the complicated world of nursing dwelling possession, ProPublica’s Nursing Residence Examine now publishes detailed possession data for services and an upgraded search that will help you sift by means of the knowledge.
The information comes from the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies, which publishes “affiliated entities” for nursing properties — lists of individuals or corporations which have an possession stake in or operational management over a number of nursing properties. CMS’ aim is to offer a greater understanding of an proprietor or operator’s efficiency throughout all of the nursing properties they’re related to. Some entities are affiliated with solely a handful of properties, whereas others, like Genesis HealthCare or The Ensign Group, are affiliated with a whole bunch of properties throughout a number of states. As a result of CMS doesn’t present this knowledge in a method that’s straightforward for most individuals to make use of, we’ve added it to our Nursing Residence Examine software.
Our new affiliated entity pages enable customers to simply discover knowledge on every firm or one who is liable for nursing properties, itemizing all properties related to that entity and displaying latest severe deficiencies — failure to satisfy care necessities — discovered at these properties. You possibly can even view an inventory of all affiliated entities nationwide.
We additionally added detailed possession data to particular person nursing dwelling pages, permitting customers to see who has an possession stake within the dwelling, in addition to who has managerial management over the power and the way lengthy they’ve held that place.
To go together with these additions, we’ve additionally expanded the database’s advanced search capabilities so journalists and others can shortly establish affiliated entities which have a historical past of significant deficiencies or different issues. For example, customers can seek for all serious deficiencies associated with Life Care Centers of America.
Individually, customers may now filter searches by F-tags, that are a system for specifying the forms of compliance points that could be discovered throughout a CMS inspection. These tags enable customers to slender their search past broad classes similar to “an infection management deficiencies” to extra focused queries similar to deficiencies related to reporting COVID-19 knowledge to residents and households or guaranteeing workers are vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19.
ProPublica plans to proceed enhancing Nursing Residence Examine with new knowledge and options within the coming months. In the event you write a narrative utilizing this new data, come throughout bugs or points, or have concepts for enhancements, please let us know!