Publications

Nursing home watch lists

• Florida’s Nursing Home Watch List: Published daily by Florida’s Agency for Health Administration, the watch list chronicles those nursing homes that 1) repeatedly fail to meet the state’s minimum nursing home standards or 2) have filed for bankruptcy protection. Nursing homes remain on the watch list for 30 months.

• Special Focus Facility List: The national nursing home watch list maintained by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services that is updated monthly.

Nursing home profitability

• GAO-11-571 Nursing Homes (July 2011) Private Investment Homes Sometimes Differed from Others in Deficiencies, Staffing, and Financial Performance
• GAO-10-70 Nursing Homes (November 2009) Addressing the Factors Underlying Understatement of Serious Care Problems Requires Sustained CMS and State Commitment
• At Many Homes, More Profit and Less Nursing: NY Times (September 2007)

Nursing home enforcement and deficiencies

• GAO-20-259T Nursing Homes (November 2019) Better Oversight Needed to Protect Residents from Abuse
• REPORT 19-112 Arizona Auditor General (September 2019) A Performance Audit and Sunset Review of the Arizona Department of Health Services
• GAO-19-433 Nursing Homes (July 2019) Imporved Oversight Needed to Better Protect Residents
• GAO-18-694T Nursing Home Quality (September 2018) Continued Improvements Needed in CMS's Data and Oversight
• Nursing Facilities, Staffing, Residents and Facility Deficiencies, 2009 through 2016 by Kaiser Family Foundation and University of California San Francisco (April 2018)
• GAO-12-214 Nursing Home Quality (February 2012) CMS Should Improve Efforts to Monitor Implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey
• GAO-09-689 Nursing Homes (August 2009) CMS’s Special Focus Facility Methodology Should Better Target the Most Poorly Performing Homes, Which Tended to Be Chain Affiliated and For-Profit
• GAO-07-241 Nursing Homes (March 2007) Efforts to Strengthen Federal Enforcement Have Not Deterred Some Homes from Repeatedly Harming Residents
• GAO-06-117 Nursing Homes (December 2005) Despite Increased Oversight, Challenges Remain in Ensuring High-Quality Care and Resident Safety
• GAO-02-312 Nursing Homes (March 2002) More Can Be Done to Protect Residents from Abuse

Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

• Older Americans Act, Title VII, Subtitle A, Chapter 2, Sections 711-713
• Aging, Independence, and Disability Program Portal: National Ombudsman Reporting System Data-At-A-Glace (2000-2018)
• Review of the State of Florida Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services Compliance (September 2011)
• Systems Advocacy and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs (March 2007)
• The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program: Rethinking and Retooling for the Future, Bader Report (April 2003)
• Institute of Medicine: Real People, Real Problems: An Evaluation of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs of the Older American Act (1995)

Florida Assisted Living Facility Resources

• Governor’s Assisted Living Facility Task Force Final Report and Recommendations (December 2011)
• Final Report of the Miami Dade County Grand Jury: Assisted Living Facilities (December 2011)
• Florida Senate Interim Report 2012-128: Review Regulatory Oversight of Assisted Living Facilities in Florida (September 2011)
• “Neglected to Death” Investigative Report, Miami Herald (April 2011)

Assisted Living Facilities

• OEI-09-08-00360 Office of Inspector General (December 2012) Home and Community-Based Services in Assisted Living Facilities