By Andy Miller
Nov 24, 2019

ATLANTA — Five Georgia nursing homes have a small red icon attached to their listing on a website that rates quality of care.

That mark is a new tool on the federal Nursing Home Compare site to warn consumers about facilities recently flagged for abuse or neglect.

The red symbol has been attached to listings of about 5 percent of the nursing homes listed nationally, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The new icons are given to nursing homes where government investigators found evidence of abuse that led to harm of a resident within the past year and/or abuse or neglect that could have potentially led to harm of a resident in each of the past two years, the Journal reported.