The Nursing Home Initiative: A Two-Year Progress Report
September 28, 2000
More than two years ago, the Special Committee on Aging began working to improve the quality of care in the nation's nursing homes. The General Accounting Office (GAO) in 1998 documented lapses in quality of care stemming in part from weaknesses in the enforcement of nursing home quality regulations. The Health Care Financing Administration launched a nursing home quality improvement initiative. The Committee has been monitoring the implementation of that initiative. This hearing will examine its progress and a new GAO report will be released.
Date: September 28, 2000
Time: 8:30 a.m.
562 Dirksen
Statements of Committee Members
- Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman, Iowa
Witness Testimony Panel 1:
- William Scanlon, Ph.D., Director, Health Care Financing and Public Health Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, DC
- Michael Hash, Deputy Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, Maryland
- Claire C. McCaskill, Missouri State Auditor, Jefferson City, Missouri
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- Carol Benner, Director, Office of Health Care Quality, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Catonsville, Maryland
Hearing Publications
- Committee on Aging Print: 106-39