Name: Report criticizes one-star nursing homes in New Jersey
Uploaded: 2022-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 5 min 4 s
Description: Families reacted to a new report from NJ's acting comptroller that identified 15 one-star nursing homes as chronic underperformers. The report recommends the state use that funding as leverage, to force historically poor performers to improve within two years or face consequences that could include loss of Medicaid money. But an industry spokesman says the report's outdated.

“It’s absolutely horrible. It shouldn’t be this way.” Families reacted to a new report from the state’s acting comptroller that identified 15 one-star nursing homes as chronic under-performers whose “longstanding low ratings expose Medicaid beneficiaries to unnecessary risks and result in taxpayer funds being used for care that is substantially below average.” Acting Comptroller Kevin Walsh says that together these 15 one-star facilities — almost all, for-profit — received more than $100 million in public Medicaid funding each year, with some facilities often owned or operated by the same people. The report recommends the state use that funding as leverage to force historically poor performers to improve within two years or face consequences that could include loss of Medicaid money. But an industry spokesman says the report’s outdated and that facilities are improving.