Selecting a Nursing Home

Seminar

IUPUI Glendale Campus - Room 5

January 13, 2004

10:00 am to 12 noon

Robyn Grant, health consultant and former Indiana State Ombudsman for nursing homes provided information that should be used in selecting a nursing home.

The following is a list of web pages on the selection of nursing homes that were given to us last month. This would be a good start for Senior Academy members desiring to find a nursing home.

Provides detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.

http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/Home.asp

Nursing home survey information to help evaluate the quality of care provided by Indiana's Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes.

http://www.state.in.us/isdh/regsvcs/ltc/repcard/rptcrd1.htm

Detailed profile of all certified and non-certified comprehensive care nursing facilities within the state of Indiana. Provides information on; 1) Basic information, 2) Bed counts and census, 3) Results of surveys, 4) State licensure actions, and 5) Federal certification actions imposed.

http://www.state.in.us/isdh/regsvcs/ltc/profile/index.htm

Provides information about 16,000 Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes in the United States, including easy-to-understand reports based on recent government surveys.

http://www.memberofthefamily.net/