Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Feds Release Nursing Home Inspections, Free of Censor’s Marks - ProPublica

Feds Release Nursing Home Inspections, Free of Censor’s Marks - ProPublica: In response to a Freedom of Information Act request byProPublica, the government has released unredacted write-upsof problems found during nursing home inspections around the country. ProPublico is making them available for download.

For several months now, ProPublica has made redacted versionsof this same information available in an easily searchable format in our Nursing Home Inspecttool. These versions, which reside on the U.S. Centers for Medicare andMedicaid Services website, NursingHome Compare, sometimes blank out nursing home patients’ ages, medical conditions, datesand prescribed medications.

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