Nursing Home Complaint Statistics Still Going Up

The general trend in which more and more people file complaints about nursing homes — a trend that spans more than a decade – seems to be continuing.

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), issued a “data brief” on September 28, 2017 announcing that, “Overall, states received one-third more nursing home complaints in 2015 than in 2011,” while the number of nursing home residents decreased 3 percent.

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