Thinking About Health

The Senate Special Committee on Aging has just released one of the most damning reports on the nation’s nursing homes that I’ve seen in a long time, www.aging.senate.gov/press-releases/casey-toomey-secure-cms-commitment-to-publicly-release-monthly-list-of-underperforming-nursing-facilities-.

The short document should be required reading for any family thinking of moving a relative to a nursing facility.

Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey, a Democrat, who is the ranking member on the committee along with Pennsylvanian Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, a Republican, recently revealed a special but unpublicize...