Nursing Home Abuse: Accountability and Transparency

This article from The Frederick News-Post Online lays out some of the concerns about nursing home transparency and accountability. When nursing home and health care become such big business, executives and decision-makers who control budgets become removed from what is happening on the "front lines" in the actual nursing home. There seems to be an insulation from those realities, including what it takes to actually care for residents appropriately; and the focus tends to be on profit and the "bottom line" for the nursing home facilities. When nursing homes set up complicated schemes to avoid liability, the patients, and society, suffer. Accountability is important to Americans, and the nursing home should be no less accountable to those it harms through negligence than are regular people when they are negligent.