five-star rating system

Hospitals need to toughen up. Their impending new five-star rating system isn’t going to be the end of the world (at least, not for most of them). But if the experience of skilled nursing homes is...

What do nursing homes want for Christmas? Something that they are unlikely to receive: a new five-star rating system. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services presented them with a most unwelcome holiday...

The five-star rating system for nursing homes officially begins tomorrow. But it is already off to a rocky start. Today the normally easygoing Larry Minnix, president and CEO of the American Association...