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Nursing Home Care Quality: Twenty Years After the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
Publication Date: December 2007
Publisher(s): Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Topic: Health (Hospitals and other health care facilities)
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
To mark the 20th anniversary of the passage of landmark federal legislation to improve the quality of nursing home care, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (known as OBRA '87), this report explains the key provisions of OBRA ’87 related to nursing home care and examines the progress and problems in quality assurance in nursing homes over the past twenty years.