Kentucky's nursing homes overall rank 15th worst in the United States with ten ranking among the worst in the nation, according to a report from the federal Government Accounting Office (GAO).  The ten worst nursing homes in Kentucky according to the report are as follows:

• Madison Manor (Richmond)

• Britthaven (Somerset)
• Cambridge Place (Lexington)
• Salyersville Health Care Center (Salyersville)
• Villaspring (Erlanger)
• Pembroke Nursing Home (Pembroke)
• Arbor Place (Clinton)
• Harborside Healthcare Nursing Home (Florence, Owensboro and Madisonville)

You can read the GAO report, "Nursing Homes: CMS's Special Focus Facility Methodology Should Better Target the Most Poorly Performing Homes, Which Tended to Be Chain Affiliated and For-Profit" by clicking here.

Source:  Lexington Herald-Leader 

Lexington, Kentucky nursing home lawyer Robert Abell represents families in nursing home neglect and abuse cases.

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