"Background: Nursing homes provide long-term housing, support and
nursing care to frail elders who are no longer able to function
independently. Although studies conducted in the United States have
demonstrated an association between for-profit ownership and inferior
quality, relatively few Canadian studies have made performance
comparisons with reference to type of ownership. Complaints are one
proxy measure of performance in the nursing home setting. The goal
of the study is to determine whether there is an association between facility
ownership and the frequency of nursing home complaints.
Methods: Publicly available data on complaints,
regulatory measures, facility ownership and size for 604 facilities in
Ontario over 1 year (2007/08) and 62 facilities in British Columbia
(Fraser Health region) over 4 years (2004–2008) was analyzed. All analyses were
carried out at the facility level.
Interpretation: Compared with for-profit chain facilities,
non-profit, charitable and public facilities had significantly lower
rates of complaints in Ontario. Likewise, in British Columbia’s Fraser
Health region, non-profit owned facilities had significantly lower rates
of complaints compared with for-profit owned facilities."
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I have read lots of horror stories of elder abuse and neglect in nursing homes before. The government and its necessary agency should address these complaints and incidents against greedy and incompetent nursing facilities.
-Seth
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