The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released its nursing home "5-Star" ranking system. The system allows users to search by nursing home name, zip code, city, state, and county. According to medicare.gov, Oklahoma has five 5 star nursing homes.
Here's a link to the ranking system: Nursing Home Compare. This is helpful information considering there were more than 661,000 Oklahomans older than 60 in 2007. There's also troubling news though:
Here's a link to the ranking system: Nursing Home Compare. This is helpful information considering there were more than 661,000 Oklahomans older than 60 in 2007. There's also troubling news though:
(National Center on Elder Abuse)
- In Oklahoma, during fiscal year 2003, Adult Protective Services investigated approximately 16,000 reports of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, exploitation, and verbal abuse of vulnerable adults. Of the cases investigated, well over half (61%) were confirmed.
- Sixty-four percent of the cases in 2003 involved self-neglect. Another 14 percent involved caregiver neglect, and 13 percent involved financial exploitation
