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Regulating U.S. Nursing Homes: Are We Learning From Experience?
Kieran Walshe
The quality of care in U.S. nursing homes has been a recurrent matter of public concern and policy attention for more than thirty years. A complex regulatory system of state licensure and federal certification is in place, but problems of poor quality and neglect and abuse of patients still appear to be endemic. This paper describes how the current system of regulation developed, examines its impact, and draws on the wider literature on regulation to outline some characteristics that may have detracted from its effectiveness and contributed to its disappointing results. Future regulatory reform should pay more attention to the lessons of regulation in other settings and make more use of research and formative evaluation.
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