More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes

New York Times by Charles Duhigg | Sep. 23, 2007 (Special Report)

Habana Health Care Center, a 150-bed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., was struggling when a group of large private investment firms purchased it and 48 other nursing homes in 2002.

The facility's managers quickly cut costs. Within months, the number of clinical registered nurses at the home was half what it had been a year earlier, records collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services indicate. Budgets for nursing supplies, resident ... Full Story »

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by Jo Asmundsson - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a pitiful story which needs to be told to the public in simple terms, so that the care givers really understand what they are doing when placing a loved one in a nursing hiome or assisted care facility. The slick machinations and movements with monies is to be deplored. Legislation must be enacted to close the doors to these vast amount of money being paid to a few persons. Remember they are receiving tax payers money when Medicare or Medicaid is paying the bill.

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