Monday, August 24, 2009

Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care, Major Study Finds

Here is a very interesting report from the "Science Daily." This sort of information is important for Caregivers...................please check out the report for yourself. We are just bring the reference to you as it was pointed out to us.

Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care, Major Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819135442.htm

A major new statistical review of 82 individual research studies has revealed that nonprofit nursing homes deliver, on average, higher quality care than for-profit nursing homes. The authors' meta-analysis shows that nonprofit facilities delivered higher quality care than for-profit facilities for two of the four most frequently reported quality measures: more or higher quality staffing and less prevalence of pressure ulcers, sometimes called bedsores.

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