Report: Poor Staffing Ratings In Houston Nursing Homes

TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT NURSING HOME facility for an elderly family member is almost always tricky since it’s difficult to tell just from visiting a place whether you’re making the right choice for your loved one.

However, there is data out there, and Kaiser Health News recently mined that data to evaluate nursing homes across the country, including a selection of those in Houston. Their findings? More than half of nursing home facilities—roughly 60 percent—examined in Houston are understaffed.

Their analysis, issued last month, is based on an examination of the data gathered by Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) when it conducted a study nursing homes across the country from January to March 2018 in a report for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.