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Study: Hispanic nursing homes provide lower quality of care

elderly hispanic man 100x100 that serve primarily Hispanic residents provide a lower quality of care compared to that cater to a mostly white clientele, according to a Brown University study. The research, which was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, looked at the rate of bedsores at in select states and found that residents in with a larger concentration of Hispanic residents reported having more bedsores than with lower concentrations of Hispanic residents.

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