LOS ANGELES: Investors are scooping up skilled nursing home facilities, but the rush to make money on these services might be putting patients’ health—and even lives—at risk, according to a lengthy article published today.
Struggling with razor-thin margins for long-term care residents, skilled nursing home facilities and other long-term providers increasingly are boosting their bottom lines by offering post-acute rehabilitation services for people who intend to return to their own homes after their stay. But traditional skilled nursing homes were not designed to provide this type of short-term, high-intensity care, such as therapy for knee replacement patients.
“These skilled nursing homes were not built for this purpose,” said…