Disturbing New Evidence Suggests Fraud Underlies Five-Star Ratings for Some Nursing Homes
Twelve years after the implementation of the nursing-home star-ratings system, a disturbing New York Times exposé and a lawsuit by California against Brookdale Senior Living reveals how the ratings are manipulated to the detriment of families in their time of crisis. The NYT’s investigation and California’s allegations in combination paint the troubling picture of profits tied to higher star ratings, and nursing homes fudging critical data that affects the ratings,...