Nearly half of the VA’s nursing homes received the agency's lowest ratings, according to quality data that the agency tried to keep secret until recently, USA Today and the Boston Globe reported.
Some 60 nursing homes connected with the Department of Veterans Affairs had received only one of five possible stars as of Dec. 31, 2017, the two newspapers said after reviewing the documents they received.
The Trump administration has blamed the Obama administration for not making the statistics public earlier, USA Today said.
The undisclosed statistics showed that the government-run nursing homes scored worse on average than those in the private sector on nine of 11 indicators, ranging from rates of anti-psychotic drug prescription to residents' deterioration.
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Too many patients and not enough medical staff. Good doctors are hard to find. Many are foreign and hard to understand. And then there are the government employees who nobody can seem to fire for not doing their jobs. Hopefully Trump will change this.
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