U.S. Study Finds Investor-Owned
Nursing Homes Deliver Lower Quality Care
December 14, 2001
A U.S. study,
published in the September 2001 edition of the American Journal of Public
Health, found that “investor-owned nursing homes provide worse care and less
nursing care than do not-for-profit or public homes.”
Other key points of interest raised in the paper include
“Investor-owned facilities are usually part of a chain, and chain ownership per se is associated with a further decrement in quality“
"skimping on staffing by for-profit homes may partly explain their lower quality"
“investor ownership remained a strong predictor of higher deficiency rates"
"most obvious explanation for our findings is that profit seeking diverts funds and focus from clinical care”
“we believe it unwise to entrust such vulnerable patients to profit-seeking firms”
From a Canadian perspective, these findings are particularly notable in light of a 2001 Ipsos-Reid public opinion survey which found that more than half (56%) of Ontarians favour a balanced of not-for-profit and for-profit providers of long term care in the province, and a 39% prefer to have all facilities operated solely by not-for-profit organizations.
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