WASHINGTON Nursing home inspectors routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, Congressional investigators say in a new report. In the report, to be issued on Thursday, the investigators, from...

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DENVER -- State nursing home inspectors are routinely missing or understating serious deficiencies ranging from malnutrition to severe bedsores to abuse, according to a recent report from the Government Accounting Office. In Colorado, however,...
Maryland’s nursing homes, usually among the best in the nation, had an off year in 2007, according to newly published information from the Government Accountability Office. State citations for inflicting residents with “actual harm” or putting them in...