It’s as if 2020-2021 never happened, Save Jerseyans.
Back in February, the New Jersey Comptroller issued a report and concluded that 15 nursing homes should lose their very ample Medicaid funding if they fail to improve patient care quality.
On Thursday, the Comptroller dropped an updated report citing a lack of improvement at multiple facilities as well as some new offenders.
“The list of lowest-rated LTCs includes nursing homes that have received the lowest CMS overall rating (one-star) in the first month of each quarter for six of the past eight quarters from October 2020 to July 2022,” the new report explains. “OSC’s first list of lowest-rated LTCs was released in a February 2, 2022 report. That report identified 15 lowest-rated LTCs. Since that report was issued, 6 LTCs have moved off the list and 3 new LTCs have joined the list. Nine LTCs are on both lists. One of the nine LTCs on both lists was recently shut down.”
Click here to read the full report and the list of facilities.
The Garden State was one of the nation’s worst states for COVID-19 nursin home deaths. To date, the state has entered into two multi-million dollar settlements with victims’ families at state-run homes and a federal civil rights probe remains open.
