Health care for the elderly takes a huge amount of money. In fact, taxpayers subsidize over $70 billion a year on nursing homes alone. That's the reasoning behind why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released a list of the worst nursing homes in our country.

Since there are 16,400 of these facilities in the nation, people have been wanting full disclosure of this information. Interested in hearing which locations were the worst offenders? Check out the list here. They don't enumerate the facilities in order, but they do label which ones were newly added, and which locations had improved. There are over 50 listed as high-risk facilities and did not show much improvement.

While it is up to the states to determine which nursing homes get qualified for this list, they follow a few guidelines to assess the quality. Those places labeled as needing improvement did things like used an unnecessary amount of medication. But this list alone is not a reason to go pull your grandmother out of her bed if you have someone in a nursing home. It might warrant a double-check, but providing health care is difficult and the CMS administrator says this is one step they are taking to stimulate improvement across the others.