{"id":11059,"date":"2018-07-30T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2018-07-30T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:57:18","slug":"1400-nursing-homes-get-lower-medicare-ratings-because-of-staffing-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11059","title":{"rendered":"1,400 Nursing Homes Get Lower Medicare Ratings Because Of Staffing Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau and Elizabeth Lucas for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Medicare has lowered its star ratings for staffing levels in 1 in 11 of the nation\u2019s nursing homes \u2014 almost 1,400 of them \u2014 because they either had inadequate numbers of registered nurses or failed to provide payroll data that proved they had the required nursing coverage, federal records released last week show. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/1400-nursing-homes-get-lower-medicare-ratings-because-of-staffing-concerns\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=64814595&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9AeCq8ZKZh84_PgXzfULt4LTMVK0dyvyiHKDwiyVA3_QeiuakCMzRfQ44S1jdOkosG5XmFrwKqdvJS6Z-skYBeCOvmfw&amp;_hsmi=64814595\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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