This often leads to more visits to the hospital, lower quality of life and more costly treatments. When a facility violates infection-control standards, that could result in sicker patients. Statistics cannot express the human cost of substandard care. Under federal law, this means that about 60% of Idaho’s long-term care facilities cannot train new professionals like nursing assistants due to the number and severity of their fines. CMS even suspended payments for more than one-third of Idaho’s facilities due to the number and severity of their violations. Three in five accumulated more than $5,000 in fines in the last three years - totaling more than $2.8 million statewide. Federal inspectors found over 96% of all facilities had violations related to infection control and more than one-third had “serious deficiencies” in quality.įacilities face huge costs for violating government standards. The average facility garners a score of 3.5 on a 5-point scale established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Idaho’s nursing homes are in a sorry state of affairs. Regulatory reform may be useful, but only a substantial culture shift will end the destructive outsourcing of personal responsibility to bureaucrats.
FREEDOM HOMES SERIES
In this final part of our series on deregulation, we see how government intervention is a poor substitute for personal agency and the free market. Nursing homes are an example of how Americans - in our promotion of convenience - invite government control and regulations at the expense of liberty.
Despite this, Idaho’s facilities fail to meet the needs of their residents. With approximately 900 pages of federal and state regulations in place, virtually every aspect of these facilities is controlled by the government. Nursing homes are among the most heavily regulated health care settings.
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