MIAMI: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.
But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
268: The prosecutor alleges that the company and its president had been misusing funds for several years by paying kickbacks to a number of so-called “medical directors,” who were each paid monthly stipends.
But these doctors were not providing the services detailed in their contracts with the nursing homes, but were instead receiving kickbacks for referring patients in need of skilled nursing care.