Nursing Home Owners Drained Cash During Pandemic While Residents Deteriorated

(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)

After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Literally.

Part of a ceiling collapsed on a nurse, the air conditioning conked out regularly, and a toilet once burst on Sample while she was helping a resident in the bathroom, she recalled in a court deposition.

“It’s a disgusting place,” Sample, a nurse aide, testified in 2021. Continue reading here…

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