Little Rock - Arkansas Louise Chapple raised 15 children on a farm in tiny Cotton Plant, Arkansas, Her daughter Lauretta Chapple documented the care problems she alleged her mother experienced at Sandalwood Healthcare, a majority-black facility in Little Rock. A lawyer for the nursing home declined to comment on Chapple’s’ care due to privacy concerns, but said that Arkansas Office of Long Term Care found no deficient practices resulting in actual harm to Louise Chapple. Sandalwood had one of the lowest listed levels of registered nurse staffing in the country in 2012, according to government website Nursing Home Compare. Nursing homes across the country had higher listed staffing levels on a public government website than the daily average staffing levels the Center for Public Integrity calculated through its analysis of annual financial documents. The staffing discrepancies were particularly high for registered nurses. In more than 80 percent of nursing homes across the country the daily listed level on public website Nursing Home Compare was higher than the daily average level of care, the Center found. Louise Chapple died in mid-November, 2014. Jeff Kelly Lowenstein has done a year long national investigation into nursing home staffing, racial disparities and government backed mortgages. Photo by @jonlowenstein #nursinghomes #elderabuse #senior by everydayusa

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