Nursing Home Industry

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Nursing home industry
The nursing home industry leads in providing long-term care in America. Services provided by nursing homes are becoming increasingly important to the American health sector because the elderly continues to increase. In the last decade, nursing home expenditure has increased tremendously. However, the nursing home industry, being an important component of health care, still face public dissatisfaction in relation to costs as it remains an expensive form of care in the United States. As a result, long-term care is still not accessible as most nursing homes offer poor quality services. Poor quality services in nursing homes have been the subject of debate for several years in the health sector. The efforts by the states and national government to reform the health sector including nursing home care, especially for those with low income, are beco...