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National report raises overarching questions on U.S. nursing home care

By Thomas Goldsmith “Ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”  That’s the summation of the state of U.S. nursing homes — their practices, oversight and funding — that appears in a sweeping report from an expert committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.  Members of the committee compared the new report, “The National Imperative […]