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Oklahoma Receives Failing Grade for Nursing Home Care
The Families for Better Care is a nonprofit elder advocacy group that recently reviewed and ranked nursing home care throughout the country. According to a CBS news report, the group used federal data regarding staffing, deficiencies, complaints and inspections in the nation’s nursing homes. In the study, 10 states received an A rating and 11 received an F. Oklahoma was one of the states that received a failing grade.
There are many determining factors that resulted in Oklahoma’s F rating. States that provided over an hour of professional nursing care to each resident received high ratings as did those that had a large number of experienced care workers on staff. States with nursing homes that had a high number of incident reports and complaints received low ratings. Many states received unfavorable grades, but unlike Oklahoma, managed to avoid an F rating. All Oklahoma residents should be concerned that our state is considered one of the worst in the country regarding how we treat the elderly in care facilities.
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