It’s important to research the source material from which the Federal Ratings for Nursing Homes were based.  You always want to make an “educated decision” before choosing a Nursing Home to place your loved one.  Here is an article from greatfallstribune.com that tells us about more useful tools.

As with other kinds of ratings - whether the No Child Left Behind test scores for schools or the Corporation for Enterprise Development’s business climate ratings - consumers would be well advised to dig into the data beyond the overall scores to see what’s behind them.

What they’d find by visiting the Medicare Web site www.medicare.gov/NHCompareis much more detail on how the scores were derived - including the fact that a home can have a low overall score because it did poorly in one category while achieving high scores in other areas.

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