An Independent Resource for Data on Senior Healthcare

Hospice is Not About Improving but About Feeling Comfortable  Hospice care differs significantly from the type of care that we typically think of for health care. First and foremost, hospice care is palliative care.  That means that the focus is on providing comfort and support, making the patient feel comfortable.  With hospice care the focus…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) spends considerable time and effort promoting their Five Star Quality Rating System for Nursing Homes (see here).  They even provide an extensive analysis of how they arrive at their ratings (see here).  The ratings are based on a complicated scoring system that involves multiple factors including: both…

Yesterday we stumbled on a new CMS dataset which provides a weekly accounting for Covid-19 infections and deaths in nursing homes.  Strangely this report is not part of the more general set of nursing home reports that we currently retrieve.  The data is supposedly reported weekly though it is not clear when it is published. …