Maryland has reportedly fined at least 24 nursing homes in the state for failure to disclose information on coronavirus deaths and infections in their facilities. Letters and reports dating back to the beginning of March indicate the state’s Office of Health Care Quality fined 24 Medicare-certified facilities between $250 and $750 in early May for violating an executive order by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) that required them to provide the state with data daily, according to The Washington Post.
Letters and reports dating back to the beginning of March indicate the state’s Office of Health Care Quality fined 24 Medicare-certified facilities between $250 and $750 in early May for violating an executive order by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) that required them to provide the state with data daily, according to The Washington Post.
Fran Phillips, the state’s deputy secretary for public health, said that the fines have been associated with a nearly 100 percent increase in compliance with reporting, the Post noted, saying it went from 50 percent to about 98 percent after the fines were levied.
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Sometimes a slap on the pocketbook gets people's attention. All of those nursing home managers had to explain to their boards why they were fined.
ReplyDeleteIs it secret information? Should not the names and locations of the institutions be provided?
ReplyDelete1051 absolutely....and yet the customer always pays!
ReplyDelete10:51 money is all that matters to them. Most of the nurses give a damn but all the administration cares about is money.
ReplyDeleteIf you can afford to keep your elderly beloved ones at home and hire professional help it makes all the difference.
ReplyDeleteSo total incompetence of the Governor is going to cost these facilities?
ReplyDeleteNice!
Wait until Grandpa needs to go to a nursing home and you stand by and watch the entire estate get eaten up by the $2000 per day fees.
B.T.W. most of that is paying for the liability insurance and the lawyers.
Oh did I mention that this world would be immensely better if we took all the lawyers and threw them in the ocean?