NorCo County Council member Kelly Keegan dislikes all the negative attention that Gracedale receives. She has argued it just depresses the people who work there. Medicare disagrees. It maintains a public website that lists every nursing home and rates them based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. Gracedale's latest rating, as I told you last week, is just one star, meaning it is "much below average."
How does this compare to other homes, including privately-owned facilities? There are 45 nursing homes within a 25-mile radius of Gracedale. Aside from Gracedale, only two other homes have a one-star rating. They are Sapphire Care and Rehab Center (E Stroudsburg, Pa) and Little Brook Nursing and Convalescent Home (Chalfont, NJ). Of the three homes with this one-star rating, only Gracedale has been flagged for abuse. "Nursing homes that have been cited for potential issues related to abuse have the following icon next to their name: 
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"The abuse designation at Gracedale is no doubt the result of an agency nurse who, believing she was an exorcist, attempted to perform an exorcism on a resident back in June. But there have been a rash of six substantiated complaints against the home since March, including three instances in which residents just left and had to be brought back by police.
Recently, the home was flagged again for abuse, although this time it was an abusive resident who assaulted another resident who was wandering and entered the abusive resident's room. The abused resident was hospitalized with a broken coccyx and a head injury.
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