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New Jersey climbed into the top 10 nursing homes states for the first time, reports Families for Better Care, a national nursing home resident advocacy group based in Austin. The group published its third state-by-state nursing home report card by analyzing eight federal measures to gauge nursing home quality. Buoyed by improvements in half of the statistical categories, New Jersey’s...

Indiana scored its third consecutive failing grade in nursing home care despite inching higher in overall ranking this year, reports Families for Better Care, a national nursing home resident advocacy group based in Austin. The group published its third state-by-state nursing home report card by analyzing eight federal measures to gauge nursing home quality. Indiana nursing homes continue...

Arkansas scored its first failing grade in nursing home care, reports Families for Better Care, a national nursing home resident advocacy group based in Austin. The group published its third state-by-state nursing home report card by analyzing eight federal measures to gauge nursing home quality. “It seems the bottom just fell out from under Arkansas’s nursing home care,”...

For the first time, Louisiana is no longer the nation’s second worst nursing home state, reports Families for Better Care, a national nursing home resident advocacy group based in Austin. The group published its third state-by-state nursing home report card by analyzing eight federal measures to gauge nursing home quality. Louisiana climbed seven spots in its national nursing home...

Oklahoma’s nursing home ranking showed signs of life in this year’s nursing home report card by climbing five spots to No. 44, reports Families for Better Care, a national nursing home resident advocacy group based in Austin. The group published its third state-by-state nursing home report card by analyzing eight federal measures to gauge nursing home quality. “While...