Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Responsibility is a Sophisticated Network Of Behind the Scene Business Dealings

Written by Adam Peck Category: Nursing Homes January 23rd, 2013 2 min read

Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita at the University of California at San Francisco, has studied the nursing home industry for 30 years. Last year, she examined the nation’s 10 largest for-profit chains and found up to five layers of ownership.

“You can’t tell who owns” many nursing homes, Harrington says. “It’s like tracking a problem mortgage when you don’t know who owns the bank.”

Even the federal government can’t figure it out. Medicare and Medicaid pay most of the nation’s nursing home bills and require homes to disclose their ownership structures. But when the General Accounting Office looked at six big chains in 2010, the information those chains had provided Washington gave no indication of which affiliated companies controlled what.

People who put their mother in a nursing home have no idea that decisions on staff and supplies are not being made by the administrator or a local owner says California Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Lawyer Steven Peck. Medical decisions are governed many times solely by monetary concerns by corporate entities and their individual ownership.

It’s all about the amount of money the Nursing Home Operators can make versus the care the are supposed to give as is mandated by Federal Law and State Laws which regulate these facilities.

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Written by Adam Peck

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Adam J. Peck, ESQ is a principal with Peck Law Group, APC. In 2008, Mr. Adam Peck received his Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School where he graduated Cum Laude. His practice is primarily dedicated to representing Elders, Dependent Adults, along with their loved ones and family members, who have suffered horrific personal injuries.