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On the recordSeptember 5, 2018
Fully one-third of Medicare residents in a skilled nursing home experienced harm from the care that they received and half of those cases were actually preventable.
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Diana DeGette
Democratic · Colorado

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DeGette highlights the alarming statistic of harm in nursing homes.

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