Nursing Homes and Private Equity Investors

Nursing home chains have worked hard to avoid accountability for their wrongdoing in cases of nursing home abuse, neglect, injury and death. The purchase of large nursing home chains by large private equity groups has, arguably, made accountability more difficult. If you or someone you love has been hurt by a nursing home, the link contained in this title will take you to an interesting article on this subject. This Baltimore Sun article is about the impact and concers about arge private equity groups, such as the Carlyle Group, purchasing nursing home chains. Concerns include the difficulty this can present in holding nursing homes accountable for nursing home injury, wrongful death, abuse and/or neglect. Because so many nursing home chains have grown so much in the recent past, homes in even the most rural areas of North Carolina and other states are often owned by huge nursing home operators. Whether you are in Fayetteville, Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlotte, or any other North Carolina city, the nursing home your loved one is in may be owned by one of these large chains.  A bill is pending in Congress that would help vicitms of nursing home abuse and neglect, and their attorneys, hold nursing homes accountable in this regard.