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Nurse Tish Allen checks Judy Taber’s blood pressure.

Home Care Inspections Lag, Fines Rarely Imposed

By Colleen Shaddox | October 24, 2011

As reliance on home care grows, inspections of agencies in Connecticut are backlogged, and the state rarely imposes financial penalties on agencies found with patient-care violations, a review by C-HIT has found.

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