NJ’s Granny Profiteers: Who are They? Do We Even Know – For-Profit Nursing Homes and Their Elusive Owners

Ambulance crews are parked outside Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Andover, N.J., on Thursday April 16, 2020. Police responding to an anonymous tip found more than a dozen bodies Sunday and Monday at the nursing home in northwestern New Jersey, according to news reports. The ownership has since changed hands and the facilities renamed Limecrest Subacute and Rehabilitation Center and Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) APAP

What the Pandemic Revealed About This Country’s Nursing Home Owners – New Jersey

Published 5.13.21, last edit 5:32pm

Dear Reader:

The leap of faith necessary to contemplate the astronomical profit on the trafficked lives of the elderly in this country requires a simple review of the industry’s finances. How very easy it is to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and the healthcare insurance industry. It is even easier for those charged with accountability to look the other way.

Few will put it all together lest they have to confront the brutality that has been deemed acceptable by any humane standards. We, here, lose sleep over it all. There is no accountability in the nursing home industry. In fact, when we were all looking the other way, New York’s Governor Cuomo installed the Granny Killer Immunity Provisions, many states following suit. Governor Cuomo’s campaign was funded, in pertinent part, by nursing home owners, their attorneys, the healthcare lobby, the pharma lobby, the insurance industry, all a collective of accomplices in removing the light and thus increasing profits.

A conscience… huh? What is that?

Those who are willing to speak out are punished for their efforts. Attorneys have been disbarred for whistleblowing, called something else, as they attempt to uncover the inhumanity. Newspaper journalists have been and continue to be admonished or sued for shedding light on the hardcore truths about the industry. Public media wars have been waged on politicians trying to right an entirely skewed collective moral compass. It is an “open secret” in politics, we are told.

Ownership structures have been repeatedly scrambled to protect the wealthy. Money is regularly exchanged under cover of darkness. Programs have been defunded to avoid establishing a system of accountability. Nurses get sued for walking away. Underpaid healthcare workers demand better wages and many are denied, lest there be a reduction of Net Profits.

At its fundamental atomic level, the nursing home industry is nothing more or less than the exchange of money for human life. Full stop.

The criminal nature of the industry, at least under our 45, ran from the top down. We believe everyone in between was more than happy to look the other way, or offer a “distribution of…. relief funding.” US President 45 offered a commuted sentence to a nursing home magnate who defrauded his victims out of millions and millions in what is referred to as “unbounded greed”. Private equity firms and their attorneys, more than happy to “say nothing and hear nothing,” are profiting and profiteering. And the cycle continues.

There is a sheer and inexplicable cognitive dissonance of those who do not question this industry, its finances, its treatment of the elderly. For years we, along with our collective and small group of journalists, bloggers and activists have tried to scatter the puzzle pieces for anyone who might be willing to put them together.

The savagery coupled with the profit is really not rocket science to figure out.

It took a pandemic to show just how blurred the lines of that which is deemed acceptable in a humane society really are. The black and white of right and wrong were crossed a very long time ago. Perhaps a New Jersey law is a step in the right direction. Likely not. Until owners who have records of abusing the system are put permanently out of commission, no law will draw an impassable line. It is all just a distraction.

Pandemic revealed N.J. does not know who owns for-profit nursing homes. New law would change that.

Nursing home operators must reveal more information about their finances and their ownership and also pass a review evaluating their track record on safety and quality before state regulators will allow properties to be sold, under a new law Gov. Phil Murphy signed late Wednesday.

he legislation emerged from a series of recommendations the healthcare consultant Manatt Health made a year ago to improve how nursing homes operate, after the coronavirus killed 5,400 long-term care residents within two months. The death toll is at about 8,000 today.

Manatt concluded the industry was unprepared for the pandemic, in part because one-third of all facilities had been cited for infection control violations previously and staffing shortages were endemic.

The consultant also took issue with the Health Department for not aggressively monitoring the 370 nursing homes in the state, 74% of which are owned by for-profit companies that change hands often. Manatt recommended the state adopt a stricter system of reviewing operators’ finances before they are permitted to buy new facilities.

The law, A4477, requires nursing home operators to report the names, addresses and the organizational chart for the companies who intend to buy a facility, any lease or management agreements, a list of all facilities the buyer has owned in the last five years and financial audits from the last three years. The health department will use the information to identify facilities which may be in financial distress, according to the law. Applications for ownership transfers must be posted on the DOH’s website.

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Nursing Homes and their Attorney Owners – Covid-19 and the Staggering Conflicting Interests that Exist – Part I

Law Firms prized for their Knowledge of Elder Care and Novel Approaches to Protecting the Elderly, and the conflicting interests of the Partners and Associates who Own Financial Stakes in Subpar Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers [OPINION]

Dear Reader:

The right to “sepulcher” in the law is the “right of a family member or next of kin to find solace and comfort in the act of burying a loved one.” Protecting this right alone can be the basis for a highly respectable and extremely lucrative boutique practice for attorneys. A lawsuit based upon that right can be relevant in situations where fallen soldiers are not returned home, victims of terrorist attacks are not returned to their families; and during the Covid-19 pandemic, bodies are improperly buried or even lost. A recent example is the case of Elayne Boosler, wherein a family members was buried at the hands of a guardian’s signature in the wrong cemetery at significant cost. That case is eliciting calls for an investigation. Her story is gruesome and complicated by a system of guardianship that itself is enshrouded in secrecy and disenfranchisement.

In the United States many law firms with highly intelligent and respected attorneys and practices focused on elder care, geriatric medical abuses, estate planning, insurance and disability, medical malpractice and related practices, simultaneously represent some of the worst offenders in nursing home care abuses. Many of the partners in these firms also own financial stakes in nursing homes, either with their clients or not. It is our opinion that these are diametrically opposed practices; and it is nearly impossible for a law firm to maintain the integrity of one practice area while being paid millions to represent the others. That is an opinion premised on what may be a debatable notion of ethics and moral integrity.

Admittedly, Covid-19 has created a mitigating factor in recent history. But our opinion is unwavering: the lack of care for the welfare of the elderly, the lack of interest in dignity and humanity has governed, with a wholehearted disregard for humanity, particularly in law firms with competing interests. This has occurred throughout our entire system of care and of justice. With respect to dignified and responsible elder care, the Covid-19 tragedy has denied the right to tens of thousands of families of nursing and rehabilitation homes’ patients to be physically present for their loved ones in life and, in many cases, to bury those same people who have had their lives taken by the virus.

We would argue that the fault lies though not entirely, with the owners and financial stakeholders of many of these nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. We would posit that they did not take proper precautions during the pandemic, choosing instead the path of least cost routing. Precautions would have undermined owners’ bottom lines. We maintain that the owners and operators were looking at their P/L Statements (Profit and Loss), and ignoring the potential loss of human life. Some nursing homes carry life insurance for their patients and are themselves beneficiaries of those policies. They therefore profit whether their wards live or die. This makes the situation all the more unpalatable.

For those owners whose real life profession is an active and lucrative legal practice, one which focuses on elder care, the rights of the elderly, estate planning and healthcare services, in our view there has always been a weighing of financial averages and significant conflicts. Moreover, the pandemic has increased the value of lobbying governments to reduce nursing home and even medical accountability, a conflicting premise if you are an elder care lawyer.

To add another wrench in the cogs of a lucrative attorney practice that plays both the elder care and nursing home ownership game, it is less expensive to lobby the government for Covid-19 related immunity provisions which protect owners (often themselves) from liability than to save lives and actually engage in “elder care.” It is a simple financial calculation. And at the end of the day, the elderly lose and the attorneys win.

A reasonable analogy would be a car company that hides known and foreseeable danger in manufacturing because the cost of reimbursement for the death of drivers and passengers is less expensive than recalling the vehicles in question. The outcome is based upon purely financial decisions which will continue status quo unless and until significant financial accountability is mandated.

In our view, both in the nursing home context and in the vehicle scenario, conscience and morality simply do not a play a role in the decision-making of owners and operators. In both instances manipulating political clout to obliterate the chance for families to seek financial compensation for loss of life or consortium has made and continues to make the most financial sense. In both analogous situations, if the people in charge are not held to account, both civilly and criminally, these financial equations will take precedent over the value of human life and lives will be lost.

And please remember, in the situation where the lawyers are the owners and operators of nursing homes, they make money either way. Their legal representation on behalf of owners generates bills for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in yearly billables. The nursing home ownership is gravy and the more immunity they obtain for themselves and their clients (who are often partnered with them) from liability the richer the returns on all fronts.

The nagging question is this: how can a law firm, any law firm, simultaneously have a blossoming and distinguished practice of elder care, “rights of sepulchre”, estate planning and other related practice areas and at the same time represent owners of some of the most deplorably run nursing homes in the country? We do not think that it is possible without an inescapable conflict of interest, setting aside the ethical and moral obligations to clients within those practice areas. As a securities matter, we would argue that the LLC interests associated with nursing home ownership represent securities interests and that it should be possible to implicate the SEC and its trading regime. That’s just a thought.

California Nursing Homes and Raging Covid-19 Infections – Hiding the Truth, no Oversight

Residents of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center are evacuated in April after staff refused to show for work amid a COVID-19 outbreak. A day earlier, state health inspectors found no problems at the facility in Riverside.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

As coronavirus raged through nursing homes, inspectors found nothing wrong

In early April, state inspectors completed a survey of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside as part of a federal effort to make sure nursing homes were protecting elderly residents from the coronavirus.

Their one-page report concluded: “No deficiencies.”

The next day, April 8, a fleet of ambulances lined up outside Magnolia to evacuate all 83 residents after the staff refused to show up for work, terrified of the deadly infection already spreading within the facility.

Similar scenarios played out across California this spring, survey records show. Time and again, inspectors sent to assess nursing homes’ ability to contain the new virus found no deficiencies at facilities that were in the midst of deadly outbreaks or about to endure one.

Nursing Home Oversight Failures – Part (how many?) Long Beach, CA Among the Poorest

Two Long Beach facilities named among poorest quality nursing homes in the nation

by Kelly Puente in News

The patient from Long Beach Healthcare Center was rushed to a hospital in August 2018 with an abdomen so distended from constipation that it looked as if she had “three soccer balls inside of her stomach,” according to state records.

She died 12 days later due to respiratory failure and severe sepsis from a urinary tract infection and pneumonia. A state investigation later found that the staff at Long Beach Healthcare Center made several critical errors, including not properly monitoring the woman’s deteriorating condition and failing to report that she had not had bowel movement for seven days.

The Wrigley-area facility in February was issued a rare “AA” citation—the state’s most serious violation when it’s determined that a nursing home directly caused a resident’s death.

Long Beach Healthcare Center is one of two Long Beach facilities that are named on a federal list of nearly 400 nursing homes across the country with serious ongoing health, safety or sanitary problems.

The list, released this month by U.S. senators, notes facilities with a “persistent record of poor care” that haven’t previously been released to the public, according to a Senate report.

The fact that the list has not been released to the public in previous years undermines the federal commitment to ensure transparency for families struggling to find nursing homes for loved ones and raises questions about why the names of some homes are not disclosed while others are publicly identified, according to two senators who released the report.

“We’ve got to make sure any family member or any potential resident of a nursing home can get this information, not only ahead of time but on an ongoing basis,” said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who along with Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., issued the report.

About 1.3 million Americans live in nursing homes; they are cared for in more than 15,700 facilities. The senators’ report noted that problem nursing homes on both lists account for about 3 percent of the total.

In California, which has the country’s largest concentration of nursing homes, 34 facilities were on the list. Overall, California’s nursing homes average about 12.5 health citations, compared to 7.9 nationwide.

Records show that Long Beach Healthcare Center and the other facility on the federal list—Windsor Gardens Convalescent Center of Long Beach—have a history of health citations, according to the Nursing Home Compare website, which is run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Long Beach Healthcare Center has 39 citations—more than three times the state average. Windsor Gardens has 22 citations, including one from July when a resident was found restrained in bed and soiled with feces and urine.

Both facilities are rated one of out five stars on the federal website, indicating they are “much below average.”

Jon Peralez, an administrator for Windsor Gardens, in a statement said the facility acknowledges that is it on the list and will “continue to make improvements that maintain and improve the quality of care.” A representative of Long Beach Healthcare Center could not be reached for comment.

Michael Connors, a spokesman for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said the federal ratings provide only a snapshot of problem facilities because they include only federal sanctions, not state violations recorded by state inspectors.

The problem in California, he said, is much worse.

“There are hundreds of poor-quality nursing homes here in California,” he said. “This list only identifies a handful of them.”

Connors said the problem is due to understaffing, poor oversight and a complicated web of “unscrupulous” companies that are allowed to own chains of nursing homes. Connors said for-profit entities have been able to acquire nursing homes even without state approval.

Records show that Windsor Gardens in Long Beach is owned by Blythe/Windsor Country Park Healthcare Center LLC, while Long Beach Healthcare Center’s owner is listed as Long Beach Healthcare Center LLC.

Problem facilities that have faced multiple sanctions are rarely closed, Connors said.

“The state almost never closes them, in fact not only does it not close them, it allows the operators who are responsible for this poor care to continue to operate and acquire more nursing homes,” he said. “It’s really a troubling system.”

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The Depraved Indifference in Nursing Care – The Ashmedai – The Owners Who Choose Profit Over Care – Part I

The word “Ashmedai” it is said is used to refer to the King of the demons – all that is evil. “The author of the Ra’aya Meheimna in the Zohar (3:253a) distinguishes between three types of demons: (1) those similar to angels; (2) those resembling humans and called shedim Yehuda’im (“Jewish devils”) who submit to the Torah; (3) those who have no fear of God and are like animals.” [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/demons-and-demonology]

[EDITORIAL – IN HONOR OF SHAVUOT AND THE ELDERLY AROUND THE COUNTRY WHO NEED OUR HELP] (updated 6.10.19) (updated 6.11.19)

Nursing Home Scandals in the US – A Special Duty Should be Required in Nursing Care and a Special Class of Punishments Established for Those Who Abuse

Nursing home care is a profitable business. There are “nursing home” moguls chomping at the bit to get hold of another for his or her portfolio. There are those owners/managers with their names on dozens of homes. There are straw-men who act as placeholders so the majority owners don’t need to report. It is a racket.

While the US government is supposed to restrict owners with repeated complaints from acquiring additional homes, those who are serially neglectful of rules and care, it doesn’t. Websites are not up-to-date. Nursing facility conglomerates just change ownership stakes, re-brand their product and start again with a new name and no oversight. Or, they put a straw-man in place, someone who is seemingly the owner, but in reality, is not.  The entire system is a breeding ground for greed, indifference, dereliction of duty, fraud and neglect. When it comes to the care of the elderly and patients requiring rehabilitation, the families don’t complain because they are vulnerable, they need help and most don’t know to whom to turn. The result is a pattern of victimization, victimizing patients, families and even healthcare providers.

And, Medicaid and Medicare do nothing to stop the fraud that drains their coffers. And the industry itself couldn’t give a tinker’s damn about the injury that patients sustain as a result of profit over care.

Fraud, abuse and neglect is rampant. Look no further than recent news article, some of which we have listed below. Bad actors would rather file suit for defamation than deal with the problems. Denial works wonders, particularly if it is played out in court by those with deep pockets against those with fewer financial resources. 

As an example and one that we were alerted to a few months back, a patient in a nursing facility is charged for services he or she did not receive and should have. The first crime is charging for those services not provided.  It is a fraud perpetrated on the patient and upon the healthcare system as a whole. We all suffer for it. The second crime is not providing the services at all. That second crime is worse than the first, insofar as it reflects an indifference to the health and well being of the person entitled to that service. The third crime is that of those who are supposed to be overseeing the system. No one bothers to contact patients to ask if they are receiving care. All are guilty, no one is accountable and everyone suffers.

Another scenario so common it borders on unfathomable, a specialized nursing facility is habitually short-staffed and lacks sufficient specialized skilled nursing to recognize if a patient has a bladder infection, for example. The patient sits in pain, urinates uncontrollably and is often forced to sit for hours in his or her own urine. The lack of skilled nursing is a dereliction of the requirements of a skilled nursing facility. It is also a form of neglect and if the nursing facility is billing on those services, it is also a fraud. The pain faced by the patient is a form of abuse and sitting in one’s own urine is inhumane, at best, and utterly criminal at worst – cruel and unusual punishment.

These types of nursing facilities are rated under a system proposed by the government, one that is supposed to provide guidance to families. And yet it is an abject failure. There is no oversight. The money is lost from the system and basically handed to the nursing facilities to help owners and managers line their pockets, and line them they do. 

Another example, closer to home, an incapacitated stroke patient lies on his or her back for 10-12 hours at a time unless periodically moved, which requires assistance. Alternatively, the patient will and does develop bedsores. The nursing facility is short staffed and does not have the manpower required to watch over patients requiring this level of care. If that patient’s position is not changed regularly those bedsores can ulcerate, can get infected, can cause sepsis. They are painful, excruciating and thousands of patients in beds in nursing and rehabilitation facilities throughout the United States suffer because the personnel required to make sure these virtually immobile patients are getting their care costs money and requires compassion. The nursing and rehabilitation facilities do not want to hire additional nursing or support staff. It costs money taken from their exquisitely padded pockets. And compassion is sorely lacking, non-existent and when the scales are weighted between money and compassion, compassion is not a tipping point.

What is not emphasized in an overall analysis of our healthcare system is that hiring someone to constantly change a patient’s position is less expensive to the entire system then the cost of paying for sepsis. But in the ultimately financial analysis, the nursing and rehabilitation facilities do not get rewarded when they help patients to leave. They get rewarded when beds are filled, even if they are filed with patients who might be healthy enough to go home. In fact, the application for new homes requires that potential owners have a plan for keeping their nursing facility full. The system is utterly broken. Nursing home owners profit from money that comes from lengthened and prolonged stays within their facility. There is absolutely no motivation to help people. There IS MOTIVATION TO KEEP THEM SUFFERING.

Looking to the codes used for billing, sepsis can be charged to by a hospital or facility for treatment purposes. In other words, it is a “billable event.” Moving a patient to help prevent bedsores cannot be billed. The former is profitable and the latter is not. Owners of these nursing homes are not incentivized to keep patients comfortable and healthy, improve their quality of life. That requires “compassionate care” and few nursing homes have the moral and ethical wherewithal to even make that a consideration in their ownership and management of their facilities.  Simply put, they do not want to spend the money, they want the profit and the system feeds into fraud and abuse.

The Jewish community can claim ownership of a significant percentage of beds in the greater US nursing home arena [www.briuswatch.org] . This is a fact. Most large nursing and rehabilitation groups are Jewish run and Jewish owned [https://data.medicare.gov/widgets/y2hd-n93e]. How are we not shaming our own into treating the elderly with respect, dignity and a quality of care that reflects a level of humanity, compassionate and empathy commensurate with a decent Jewish soul? A level of care that reflects and overall basis in human dignity? How are we allowing our fellow Jews to utterly demoralize the elderly for personal gain?

The ultra-Orthodox, fighting for better conditions in jails were able to raise millions in a 72 hour period.  However, they look the other way when their friends and neighbors, their fellow synagogue members, wealthy nursing home owners defraud the system and abuse patients. Why is fighting for better healthcare oversight not as important, if not more so, then prison reform? The criminal element gets more attention than the elderly, those who spent years looking after us and are then neglected.

In reality, in most cases the inmates in US prisons are treated better than the elderly in US nursing and rehabilitation facilities. Perhaps when people get old and start to get sick, they should commit crimes. The reality in the US is that they would receive better care growing old, spending their golden years behind bars then they do subjected to nursing home treatment.

There are some crimes that many of us, those with a heart, compassion, empathy and a modicum of humanity find to be absolutely unthinkable. Among them is the rape of a child, the slaughter of people as they daven in synagogue or pray in other houses of worship and the blowing up of buildings by suicide as prime examples. There are so many others. Sources tell us that sexual predators and rapists have the worst reputations going into jails and prisons and are treated accordingly. Why are those who abuse the elderly not equally as worthy of our collective revulsion?

When we hear about crimes committed in Nursing/Physical Rehabilitation homes, why are we not equally as transfixed by the sheer weight of the depravity of the crime? How is the population not so moved as to lose sleep over what is happening to our elderly in nursing care? How can substandard care in nursing facilities be ignored? Have we as a society just accepted, with some form of cognitive dissonance, that this is simply the state of affairs? And don’t the members of the Jewish community who trade regularly in the nursing home business owe their patient class some level of humanity?

Federal and state websites, which are supposed to update the quality of nursing and rehabilitation facilities are not updated regularly, though they profess to be.[https://nursinghomereport.org/ownername-joseph-schwartz/ ] There is often little follow-up on complaints of neglect, abuse and fraud. The “grading system” is inconsistent throughout the different US states and is subjective. And, it is not uncommon to find repeat offenders given license to continue to purchase additional homes to add to their portfolio of nursing homes. It is both pathetic and almost laughable.

[https://data.medicare.gov/widgets/y2hd-n93e]

How can we as a civilized society accept this outcome? How can we be looking the other way? How can social workers in hospitals around the country be sending patients from their hospitals to substandard conditions in nursing and rehabilitation facilities? What is the duty of care of these social workers? And what obligation does the US healthcare, Medicare and Medicaid systems have to protect those within our society who are being harmed by nothing more than depraved indifference.

 

ADDITIONAL READING:

Whether Worth Less or Worthless, Quality of Care Issues Under the FCA are Worth Noting

WHERE IS THE OVERSIGHT?

SICK, DYING AND RAPED IN AMERICA’S NURSING HOMES

How N.Y.’s Biggest For-Profit Nursing Home Group Flourishes Despite a Record of Patient Harm

Nursing home care: A growing crisis for an aging America

Questions Remain About Pennsylvania’s Vetting of Skyline Healthcare

Elder Abuse in Residential Long-Term Care Settings: What Is Known and What Information Is Needed?

Esformes will appeal convictions on 20 charges in $1.3 billion healthcare fraud case

Nursing Homes Held by Skyline Owner Face Crisis, Bouncing Paychecks in Mass.

Ex-independent living home employee found guilty of elder abuse

It’s a scheme’: Nursing homes owe thousands to Fall River pharmacy

Federal Way woman must repay state in workers’ comp scam

Nursing Home Abuse Statistics

The statistics reflecting incidents of abuse involving elderly residents in nursing homes and care facilities are both staggering and disheartening. At the broadest level, more than two (2) million cases of elder abuse are reported every year, and almost one (1) out of every ten (10) elderly individuals will experience some form of elder abuse. Moreover, virtually all parties working closely with the elderly on topics such as nursing home abuse have noted that the overwhelming majority of abuse incidents remain unreported. Sadly, while those figures reflect a national epidemic of violating the vulnerable, but also, most likely grossly understate the problem of elder abuse in the United States.

 

 

 

Caring for the Elderly in the US, the Potential For Fraud, Understaffing, Maltreatment, etc. Request for Information – The Grand of Great Neck

In Loving Memory of Someone Who Spent Years in and Out of Nursing and Rehab Facilities –

Your Experiences are the Greatest Impetus

 

Dear LostMessiah Readers:

Today is April 8, 2019 – (so there be no mistake on publication dates). [updated 2:25pm 4.8.19]

We have received repeated emails and telephone calls about the Grand Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Great Neck, formerly known as Grace Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation. 

We have been provided with documents and information indicating that patients’ insurance including Medicare and Medicaid are charged for rehabilitation programs they are not receiving. We have been advised that Medicare and Medicaid are paying out invoices for services, medications and medical visits never provided.

At least one person has reported this issue directly to the state, initially receiving responses and after some time, to no avail.  

We have been told in no uncertain terms that nearby hospitals may be getting special kickbacks, of sorts, to make certain that patients are sent to The Grand, provided however, that the Grand needs to fill beds. There is apparently a push to keep beds full and if that information is correct, a deal between hospitals and nursing facilities to make sure that happens is not altogether inconceivable. 

We have at least one first hand account of someone who could not get a family member discharged despite multiple requests and that once discharged, Adult Family Services was called to intervene with claims that the family member is abusing his or her relative and is at fault for the inadequate care. This is a travesty. 

We have patient accounts of reductions in the quantity and quality of food provided to patients which went from bad under Grace Plaza management to worse under the management of The Grand. We have been told that the Great Neck location is understaffed. Those among the staff who work hard are overworked and the others just remain as bodies to prove patient to caregiver ratios. The staff has also made an effort to provide us with information, emphasizing their fear of reprisals, which we have been advised are harsh.

The litany of potential problems as reported to us by multiple parties is long and vast. And those who are hurt are the most vulnerable within our society, the elderly and the sick. We owe them a better future, a better quality of life and we intend to help them achieve that.

We have been given full accounts of people who are are both former or present residents and/or their family members and it is our intention to handle these first-hand accounts with some level of objectivity, care, and take each and every complaint seriously.

We know that each of these complaints could have a reasonable and logical explanation; so we are not going to be quick to come to any conclusions or lay fault squarely on the facility.

We are asking instead that people get in touch with us. Tell us your story. We are comprising a report which will either yield results that explain the situation or alternatively a condemnation that we intend to send it to the state. We will provide whatever results we have compiled.

We are not suggesting that, absent your own independent research, you avoid any facility. We are advising as a blog and not from any legal authority that you advocate for your own care and the care of your loved ones. Hold people accountable. Make demands. Ask questions. Check your statements. Demand to be discharged if you are not getting adequate care. Report improprieties to the State. Do not get bullied, anywhere.

Our gmail is findinglostmessiah@gmail.com. Please send along all information available. Should the information we are provided warrant action, we will file complaints with every available state agency as necessary. Any results will be published as they become available. 

Please feel free also to contact us if you are looking for an attorney to handle any lawsuit you think might be available.  We may have connections in that department and are in the process of compiling a list. If you are an attorney and would like to be included on a list of elder-care attorneys who advocate for the elderly and their families, please feel free to contact us. If you have advocated for any facility as against a complaint, we will not entertain you as an appropriate advocate for patients. If you are an attorney that has advocated to silence scrutiny against elder-care facilities we also will not include you on our list as an appropriate advocate for the rights of patients and their families.

To those of you requiring nursing and long-term care, we would like to see you treated with respect, dignity, kindness and humanity. We do not believe that your lives should be valued by the dollar you earn the owners of these facilities, but by the Hippocratic Oath that should be held unerringly by  those entrusted with your care.

To those of you who are caregivers, we have walked in your shoes and are clear on the difficulties. This post and everything we hold dear should reflect that. This post is being written in loving memory of someone who spent the last 9 years of her life unable to advocate on her own behalf, aphasic and with caregivers who stood steadfast to providing her care. Even with their temerity and tenacity, success was fleeting.

As for your own choice of legal representation, we DO NOT RECOMMEND that you hire any law firm on your own that is associated with or has ownership stakes in any of these homes. The community of owners, at least in New York, is a small one and the owners look out for one another. The owners also trade these homes amongst themselves to allow the homes to clear their historical records, wiping the slate clean, so-to-speak. If you choose a law firm on your own, find one that has no principals with any financial interest in any nursing or long term care facility. We also highly recommend that you do not engage in firms that have represented nursing care Plaintiffs trying to silence the issues related to the safety of residents in Nursing and Rehabilitation Care Facilities. If you are trying to protect your loved ones, look for law firms that have that as their sole interest. It’s really common sense; but there are some big name firms which might want you to believe otherwise.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Overview Quality Inspections

The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Great Neck

 The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Great Neck

Read more about Nursing Home quality measures.

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 Preventive Care  

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 Resident Safety  

Compare Nursing Homes in New York – the Unrated and the 1 – Star Rated – DO NOT IGNORE THIS!

Compare Nursing Homes in New York

Research and compare ratings for nursing homes in the state of New York. There are 622 nursing homes listed. There are 161 nursing homes with a 5 star rating, 122 nursing homes with a 4 star rating, and 92 homes with only a 1 star rating.

Name	Rating	Address
Bronx Gardens Rehabilitation & Nursing Center	No Rating Available	2175 Quarry Rd Bronx 10457
Carthage Area Hospital S N F	No Rating Available	1001 West Street Road Carthage 13619
Concord Nursing Home Inc	No Rating Available	300 Madison Street Brooklyn 11216
E C M C Transitional Care Unit	No Rating Available	462 Grider Street Buffalo 14215
Lawrence Nursing Care Center	No Rating Available	350 Beach 54th Street Arverne 11692
New Roc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	No Rating Available	1335 Portland Ave Rochester 14621
Palisade Nursing Home Company	No Rating Available	5901 Palisade Avenue Bronx 10471
Pelham Parkway Nursing Center and Rehab Facility	No Rating Available	2401 Laconia Ave Bronx 10469
Schaffer Extended Care Center, Inc	No Rating Available	16 Guion Place New Rochelle 10802
The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Ped L T C Pavilion	No Rating Available	95 Bradhurst Ave Valhalla 10595
Wells Nursing Home Inc	No Rating Available	201 W Madison Avenue Johnstown 12095
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Allegany L L C	1 / 5	2178 North Fifth Street Allegany 14706
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Aurora Park L L C	1 / 5	292 Main Street East Aurora 14052
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Dunkirk L L C	1 / 5	447 449 Lake Shore Drive West Dunkirk 14048
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Endicott L L C	1 / 5	301 Nantucket Drive Endicott 13760
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Houghton L L C	1 / 5	9876 Luckey Drive Houghton 14744
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Orchard Park L L C	1 / 5	6060 Armor Road Orchard Park 14127
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Three Rivers L L C	1 / 5	101 Creekside Drive Painted Post 14870
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Westfield L L C	1 / 5	26 Cass Street Westfield 14787
Albany County Nursing Home	1 / 5	780 Albany Shaker Road Albany 12211
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Ho	1 / 5	One Norton Avenue Oneonta 13820
Barnwell Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	3230 Church Street Valatie 12184
Beechtree Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing	1 / 5	318 South Albany Street Ithaca 14850
Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center	1 / 5	800 West Chestnut Street Rome 13440
Bethlehem Commons Care Center	1 / 5	125 Rockefeller Road Delmar 12054
Betsy Ross Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	1 Elsie Street Rome 13440
Bridge View Nursing Home Inc	1 / 5	143 10 20th Ave Whitestone 11357
Bridgewater Center for Rehab & Nursing L L C	1 / 5	159 163 Front Street – Box 765 Binghamton 13902
Brighton Manor	1 / 5	989 Blossom Road Rochester 14610
Capstone Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing	1 / 5	302 Swart Hill Road Amsterdam 12010
Cayuga Ridge Extended Care	1 / 5	1229 Trumansburg Road Ithaca 14850
Chautauqua County Home	1 / 5	10836 Temple Road Dunkirk 14048
Comprehensive Rehab & Nursing Center at Williamsville	1 / 5	147 Reist Street Williamsville 14221
Corning Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare	1 / 5	205 East First Street Corning 14830
Creekview Nursing and Rehab Center	1 / 5	525 Beahan Road Rochester 14624
Crown Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	28 Kellogg Road Cortland 13045
Emerald North Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	1205 Delaware Avenue Buffalo 14209
Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare	1 / 5	Po Box 127 Elizabethtown 12932
Evergreen Commons Rehab & Nursing Center	1 / 5	1070 Luther Road East Greenbush 12061
Far Rockaway Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing	1 / 5	13 11 Virgina St Far Rockaway 11691
Fiddlers Green Manor Rehabilitation & Nursing Center	1 / 5	168 West Main Street Springville 14141
Focus Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at Otsego	1 / 5	128 Phoenix Mills Cross Road Cooperstown 13326
Focus Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at Utica	1 / 5	1445 Kemble Street Utica 13501
Gowanda Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	100 Miller Street Gowanda 14070
Grace Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	15 St Pauls Place Great Neck 11021
Hempstead Park Nursing Home	1 / 5	800 Front Street Hempstead 11550
Heritage Health Care Center	1 / 5	1657 Sunset Ave Utica 13502
Hilaire Rehab & Nursing	1 / 5	9 Hilaire Drive Huntington 11743
Humboldt House Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	64 Hager Street Buffalo 14208
Indian River Rehab and Nursing Center	1 / 5	17 Madison Street Granville 12832
James Square Nursing and Rehab Centre	1 / 5	918 James Street Syracuse 13203
Jennie B Richmond Chaffee Nursing Home Co., Inc.	1 / 5	222 East Main Street Springville 14141
Jewish Home of Central New York	1 / 5	4101 E Genesee St Syracuse 13214
Katherine Luther Residential Hlth Care & Rehab	1 / 5	110 Utica Road Clinton 13323
King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation	1 / 5	2266 Cropsey Avenue Brooklyn 11214
Livingston Hills Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	2781 Route 9 , P O Box 95 Livingston 12541
Meadow Park Rehab Health Center LLC	1 / 5	78-10 164th Street Flushing 11366
Medford Multicare Center for Living	1 / 5	3115 Horseblock Road Medford 11763
Midway Nursing Home Inc	1 / 5	69 95 Queens Midtown Expressway Maspeth 11378
Nesconset Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation	1 / 5	100 Southern Boulevard Nesconset 11767
Newfane Rehab and Health Care Center	1 / 5	2709 Transit Rd Newfane 14108
Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	822 Cedar Avenue Niagara Falls 14301
Ontario Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare	1 / 5	3062 County Complex Drive Canandaigua 14424
Orchard Manor Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	600 Bates Road Medina 14103
Palatine Nursing Home	1 / 5	154 Lafayette Street Palatine Bridge 13428
Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	50 15 Beach Channel Drive Far Rockaway 11691
Pontiac Nursing Home	1 / 5	303 East River Road Oswego 13126
River Ledge Health Care and Rehabilitation Center	1 / 5	8101 State Highway 68 Ogdensburg 13669
Riverside Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing	1 / 5	90 No Main Street Castleton on Hudson 12033
Riverview Manor Health Care Center	1 / 5	510 Fifth Avenue Owego 13827
Rosewood Rehabilitation & Nursing Center	1 / 5	284 Troy Road Rensselaer 12144
Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, L L C	1 / 5	2799 Sheridan Drive Tonawanda 14150
Safire Rehabilitation of Southtown, L L C	1 / 5	300 Dorrance Avenue Buffalo 14220
Samaritan Keep Nursing Home Inc	1 / 5	133 Pratt St Watertown 13601
Samaritan Senior Village, Inc	1 / 5	22691 Campus Drive Watertown 13601
Saratoga Center for Rehab & Skilled Nursing Care	1 / 5	149 Ballston Avenue Ballston Spa 12020
Sodus Rehabilitation & Nursing Center	1 / 5	6884 Maple Ave Sodus 14551
St Johnsville Rehab & Nursing	1 / 5	7 Timmerman Avenue Saint Johnsville 13452
St Luke Health Services	1 / 5	299 East River Road Oswego 13126
Suffolk Center for Rehabilitation and Nrsg	1 / 5	25 Schoenfeld Blvd Patchogue 11772
Sunnyside Care Center	1 / 5	7000 Collamer Rd East Syracuse 13057
Teresian House Nursing Home Co	1 / 5	200 Washington Ave Ext Albany 12203
The Citadel Rehab & Nursing Center at Kingsbridge	1 / 5	3400 -26 Cannon Place Bronx 10463
The Commons on St Anthony Street, a Loretto S N F	1 / 5	3 St Anthony Street Auburn 13021
The Grand Rehabilitation & Nursing at Guilderland	1 / 5	428 State Route 146 Altamont 12009
The Hurlbut	1 / 5	1177 East Henrietta Rd Rochester 14623
The Orchard Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre	1 / 5	10421 State Route 40 Granville 12832
The Pines at Glens Falls Center for Nrsg & Rehab	1 / 5	170 Warren Street Glens Falls 12801
The Pines Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Olean	1 / 5	2245 West State Street Olean 14760
The Shore Winds	1 / 5	425 Beach Avenue Rochester 14612
The Stanton Nursing and Rehab Centre	1 / 5	152 Sherman Avenue Glens Falls 12801
The Villages of Orleans Health and Rehab Center	1 / 5	14012 Route 31 Albion 14411
Townhouse Center for Rehabilitation & Nrsg	1 / 5	755 Hempstead Turnpike Uniondale 11553
Unity Living Center	1 / 5	89 Genesee Street Rochester 14611
Utica Rehabilitation & Nursing Center	1 / 5	2535 Genesee Street Utica 13501
Valley Health Services Inc	1 / 5	690 West German Street Herkimer 13350
Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing	1 / 5	5075 West Seneca Turnpike Syracuse 13215
Vestal Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	1501 Route 26 South, Vestal 13850
Washington Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare	1 / 5	Route 40 Argyle 12809
Wesley Gardens Corporation	1 / 5	3 Upton Park Rochester 14607
Wesley Health Care Center	1 / 5	131 Lawrence Street Saratoga Springs 12866
Williamsville Suburban L L C	1 / 5	163 South Union Road Williamsville 14221
Willow Point Rehabilitation and Nursing Center	1 / 5	3700 Old Vestal Road Vestal 13850