Article: Nursing Home Watch: Consumer Reports 'Watch List' Exposes Serious Resident Care Problems at Ensign Group Nursing Homes; Yearly Expose Finds Substandard Care and Repeated Patient Care Violations at Several Facilities Currently Operated by California's Fastest-Growing Nursing Home Chain.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2004 Nursing Home Watch List, published this month by Consumer Reports, names seven California nursing homes currently operated by the Ensign Group, whose records "raise questions about the quality of care delivered to residents."+ The Ensign Group is California's fifth-largest and fastest-growing nursing home chain.

The list, published annually by the independent non-profit organization, uses state records and public complaints to compile a list of homes in states across the U.S. at which consumers should be particularly vigilant. To compile the Consumer Reports list, researchers looked at five criteria: high-severity ...

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