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Article: Washington State Nursing Homes Wary over Federal Ratings.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 21, 2002
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By Marsha King, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 21--The long-term-care community is preparing for this week's release of controversial federal data that make this state's nursing homes, as a group, look a little worse on some measures than homes in five other states.
That's not necessarily the case.
Tension is growing over the accuracy of the measures and the validity of comparing the six pilot states. Many local experts doubt most consumers will be able to understand the information or find it valuable.
"At first Washington was thrilled to be one of the pilot states. We were hoping to have some input ...