All Posts: nursing homes

• Nursing Home Care Cost Significantly Outpaces General Inflation and Medical Care Prices

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 20, 2019) — One of the largest studies on out-of-pocket costs for nursing home care finds prices are high and rising faster than other medical care and consumer prices, reports a team of health policy researchers. Their study, published in Medical Care Research and Review, reviews nursing home prices in […]

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• In Times of Low Unemployment, Nursing Home Quality Suffers

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (December 7, 2018) — The low unemployment rate in the U.S. — which fell to a 49-year low in September and October — is good news to many people, but perhaps not to residents of nursing homes. A Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) study found that quality of care in nursing homes […]

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