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Chain Nursing Homes reduce RN staffingJan 22nd, 2012
January 21, 2012 -- A recent study confirms that for-profit Nursing Home chains typically deliver lower quality care than non-profit or government owned nursing homes. That is because the chains focus on profit, not quality of nursing care, and labor costs can be cut by hiring less qualified, lower paid non-licensed personnel rather than RNs.
The study is Nurse Staffing and Deficiencies in the Largest For Profit Nursing Home Chains and Chains Owned by Private Equity Companies, by C. Harrington, B. Olney, H. Carrillo and T. Kang, and can be found online at Health Services Research (2011).
The ten largest for profit chains in 2008 were HCR Manor Care, Golden Living, Life Care Centers of America, Kindred Healthcare, Genesis HealthCare Corporation, Sun Health Care Group, SavaSeniorCare LLC, Extendicare Health Services, Inc., National Health Care and Skilled HealthCare, LLC.
Kindred Healthcare, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, owns more than 220 nursing homes and, in the third Q of 2011, reported revenues of $1.5 billion.
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