Nonprofit nursing homes provide better care, major study finds

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 08/18/2009 - 22:00

(Physicians for a National Health Program) A major new statistical review of 82 individual research studies has revealed that nonprofit nursing homes deliver, on average, higher quality care than for-profit nursing homes.

The authors' meta-analysis shows that nonprofit facilities delivered higher quality care than for-profit facilities for two of the four most frequently reported quality measures: more or higher quality staffing and less prevalence of pressure ulcers, sometimes called bedsores.


 

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