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By asking questions and looking for certain signs at the facility you can better prevent unnecessary instances of nursing home negligence from occurring. Here are a few questions you can ask the facility (information from Medicare):

  1. Is the home and the current administrator licensed?

  2. Does the home conduct background checks on all staff?

  3. Does the home have special services units?

  4. Does the home have abuse prevention training?

A 1998 study conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) concluded that more than half of the suspicious nursing home deaths were probably due to nursing home negligence, including malnutrition and dehydration.


Nursing Home Negligence Helpful Links

National Citizen’s Coalition For Nursing Home Reform
NCCNHR was formed because of public concern about substandard care in nursing homes.

Friends and Relatives of Institutionalized Aged
An independent non-profit, advocacy group that helps nursing home residents, organizes their families and friends, educates consumers and seeks more effective laws and public policies.

American Health Care Association
Organization represents nursing homes.

A Perfect Cause
Nursing home reform organization


Nursing Home Negligence Web sites:

HCFA's Nursing Home Search
Search engine at this site allows users to check whether a particular nursing home has been cited for problems using ZIP code or state. Because a home does not appear in the database does not mean it passed all inspections.

Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General
Search engine allows users to check whether a particular nursing home has been cited for problems using ZIP code or state. Because a home does not appear in the database does not mean it passed all inspections.

Medical Malpractice Attorneys Source - Offers a searchable database of medical malpractice attorneys nationwide. Search by geographic area to find a lawyer specializing in hospital errors or surgical mistakes.

Nursing Home Ratings
This private company rates nursing homes.

Administration on Aging
This link contains a fact sheet on elder abuse prevention.

Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Information Center
Operated by an investigative and consulting firm, this site includes information on what defines abuse, federal and state laws and recent news reports of abuse.

Michigan Consumer Guide to Nursing Homes
This site contains a detailed checklist of things to look for, ask and consider when visiting a potential long-term care facility. Other states offer these, too.

Personal Injury Lawyers
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National Center on Elder Abuse
This site includes information how to report abuse, statistics, fact sheets, information on federal laws and many Web links.

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Nursing Home Negligence Helpful Links

National Citizen’s Coalition For Nursing Home Reform

Friends and Relatives of Institutionalized Aged

American Health Care Association

Association for the Protection of the Elderly

A Perfect Cause


Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA 87)
OBRA 87 requires that the facility provide each patient with care that will enable the patient "to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being."

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA 90)
The Patient Self Determination Act covers all long-term care facilities that participate in Medicare or Medicaid.