Complaints against Wisconsin nursing homes continue to rise
Posted: Sep 26, 2022 9:23 PM CST
WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- Complaints against Wisconsin nursing homes continue to pile up and could surpass a record number filed last year.
According to the state's Department of Health Services, Wisconsin has received more than 1,500 complaints against nursing homes so far this year.
That's about 190 new complaints each month.
The state last year received an average of 165 per month, for a total of 1,984 complaints.
This comes as nursing homes struggle to deal with their own staffing shortages and recover from inspection backlogs caused by the Covid pandemic.