90% of U.S. Nursing Homes have staffing levels too low to provide adequate care!
Current number of people living in Nursing Homes 1.4 Million. Defficiencies in care was 31% higher in for - profit nursing homes than not for profit nursing homes.
In the year 2000 there were 3.4 billion dollars in suspicious accounting transactions identified by US News and World Report.
In 2003, there were 20,673 complaints of abuse, gross neglect, and exploitation on behalf of nursing home and board and care residents. This does not include the unlucky ones that had no one to watch out for them or had medical conditions like dementia, and could not speak for themselves.
The number of incidents of elder abuse reported to authorities was 1 in 14.
These facts were taken from an article published by The American Association for Justice
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/justice/hs.xsl/3005.htm

These facts should alarm anyone. What if you or your loved one end up in one of the 90% of homes that are not staffed to provide adequate care? What if they are the one out of fourteen who suffer abuse? Is there Justice, I have not seen any Justice in regards to the treatment my Mother received at Hendersonville Health and Rehab. I have been reviewing records from NCDHHS website, and according to the low number of "substantiated" complaints filed, neither have a lot of other people.
What needs to happen to make them pay attention to the abuse, and enforce some kind of Justice? Maybe they should be forced to live in one of these facilities and be at the mercy of these " Caregivers". In my mind that would be justice!
I am most certain that when they or their loved ones need one of these facilities, they are placed in the 10% that have appropriate staffing levels to provide adequate care. They probably make up the majority of residents in that 10%. What about the rest of us? Who is looking out for us, the NCDHHS, thats who. Are they doing their job, or are they turning their heads in order to live a certain lifestyle? I know in Mom's case they chose to turn their heads and let Hendersonville Health and Rehab get away without a single defficiency.
Get involved and make a difference before you or someone you care about falls into the hands of these reckless profiteers!