Two months after that award was announced, state inspectors cited the home for placing residents in immediate jeopardy. The inspectors alleged the home had a defective door alarm that enabled a resident of the home to leave the facility, walk about a third of a mile and cross a busy street before being spotted by someone in the neighborhood.
According to data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Accura chain operates 32 care facilities with an average overall rating of 2.5 stars on the agency’s five-star scale. The chain has been hit with more than a $1.1 million in fines for quality-of-care violations that have put elderly residents at risk, and regulators have suspended Medicaid payments to various Accura facilities at least 11 times.
Audio recordings and financial documents reveal the industry’s political clout
Editor’s note: Shortly after this story was published, the Iowa Health Care Association removed from its website the publicly accessible audio recordings of IHCA lobbyists and members. As a result, the links in this story to those recordings may not work.
According to data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Accura chain operates 32 care facilities with an average overall rating of 2.5 stars on the agency’s five-star scale. The chain has been hit with more than a $1.1 million in fines for quality-of-care violations that have put elderly residents at risk, and regulators have suspended Medicaid payments to various Accura facilities at least 11 times.
Audio recordings and financial documents reveal the industry’s political clout
Editor’s note: Shortly after this story was published, the Iowa Health Care Association removed from its website the publicly accessible audio recordings of IHCA lobbyists and members. As a result, the links in this story to those recordings may not work.
