Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania’s tanking nursing home care continued for the third consecutive report card, plunging the state’s ranking 14 spots to No. 46 overall and recording Pennsylvania’s first failing grade in any report.
• Dangerous conditions became more prevalent in Pennsylvania’s nursing homes as severe deficiencies swelled more than 80 percent since the last report card.
• Ninety-five percent of Pennsylvania’s nursing homes were cited one or more deficiencies.
• Pennsylvania’s nursing home residents continued to have a difficult time getting much needed help from caregivers as residents received fewer than 2 hours and 21 minutes of direct care per day.
• Pennsylvania is the MId-Atlantic Region’s lowest ranked state and the region’s only state to fail in care overall.

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