anchor: Improvements included increased funding for nursing home surveyors, more prompt investigation of complaints alleging serious harm to residents, more immediate enforcement actions for homes with repeated serious problems, a reorganization of HCFA's regional staff to improve consistency in oversight, and increased funding for administrative law judges to reduce the backlog of appealed enforcement actions.
positive: Faster investigating of allegations of harm to residents was listed among the improvements.
negative: Improvements failed to include the provision of more money given to nursing home surveyors.