Home Inspectors News Updates
May 18, 2008

Officials Debate Quality Of OK Nursing Home Inspectors (News On 6 Tulsa)
State health officials disagree with a federal report that says Oklahoma's nursing home inspectors don't do as good of a job as they should of finding problems that cause residents harm.

Inspectors Often Overlook Serious Deficiencies At U.S. Nursing Homes, GAO Report Finds (Medical News Today)
State nursing home inspectors miss or minimize deficiencies -- such as malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of medications and abuse -- that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, according to a report scheduled for release on Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, the New York Times reports.

Health Department officials disagree with GAO report on nursing home inspections (Tulsa World)
1. 5/17/2008 2:07:19 PM, ann, nowata sadistic workers are the ones who are to blame....... 2. 5/17/2008 2:31:17 PM, Registered Nurse, I recently did a staffing for a Nursing home that has a dementia wing too. I had a LPN oversighting the dementia wing.

Lakewood Nursing Home Closing Because Of Violations (KMGH 7 Denver)
State nursing home inspectors are routinely missing or understating serious deficiencies ranging from malnutrition to severe bedsores to abuse, according to a recent report from the Government Accounting Office.

Inspectors crisscross the globe to ensure food is kosher (Carroll County Online)
MINSTER, Ohio - Every other day in the month before Passover, Rabbi Mordechai Teren drives the 440 miles round trip between his home in suburban Cleveland and The Dannon Co. yogurt plant in rural western Ohio.