Odd Omission

The Department of Health and Human Services had to release its list of poor-performing nursing homes late last week, after it was about to be leaked. I checked press coverage, and very few news outlets published the list or even a link to the list. Obviously there's the local-angle factor...if one of the homes isn't in your town, why publish the list? But also HHS was not very forthcoming with it....you can't find the list on the HHS website without doing a lot of hunting.

BTW, three of the homes are in Missouri (Florissant, KC, and Columbia), one is in Iowa (Burlington) and one in Illinois (Forest Park). Here's the link:


http://www.cms.hhs.gov/CertificationandComplianc/Downloads/SFFList.pdf