Should Nursing Homes Be for Profit?
"They're not there to invest in the care for the residents, they're there to make money," says Charlene Harrington, a professor of nursing at [UCSF] and author of the 18-month study. "The way these chains have made money is by cutting the staff to the bare bones and pocketing the profits."
Harrington, who is part of a team that has researched nursing homes for 25 years, says the privatization of chains allows companies to shirk regulatory scrutiny ...
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