{"id":22570,"date":"2024-03-13T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22570"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:44:02","slug":"concerns-grow-over-quality-of-care-as-investor-groups-buy-not-for-profit-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22570","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Grow Over Quality of Care as Investor Groups Buy Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Harris Meyer for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelly Olson\u2019s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a not-for-profit organization, the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in 2019, Sanford Health \u2014 a not-for-profit, tax-exempt hospital system \u2014 acquired the nursing home. The covid-19 pandemic struck soon after. From then on, the facility was regularly short of staff, and residents endured long wait times and other care problems, said Olson, a registered nurse who formerly worked at the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Scandia Village has a new, for-profit owner, Continuum Healthcare. Olson said she was reassured when Continuum hired two locals as the facility\u2019s new administrator and nursing director.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/investors-private-equity-nonprofit-nursing-homes-quality-of-care\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/investors-private-equity-nonprofit-nursing-homes-quality-of-care\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Harris Meyer for KFF Health News) Shelly Olson\u2019s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,20,45,24],"tags":[1180,385,238,1179,1178,94,933],"class_list":["post-22570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-ltc","category-nursing-homes","tag-for-profit-nursing-homes","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-investor-groups","tag-nonprofit-nursing-homes","tag-older-adults","tag-quality-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22571,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570\/revisions\/22571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}