Well, since private ones don’t report their income, that’s about all we can go on, isn’t it? Do you have proof the other way?

As for when I set foot in a nursing home, several times. I have clients who own them. And they do very well.

Anon 03:29: Please do read for comprehension. I never excused bad nursing home behavior. I pointed out two things: One, if “loved ones” had played an active role in the family member’s care (ie. bothered to come by more than once a year), that much of the real abuse would have never happened. Two, what is termed “abuse” is in reality the very real difficulty of managing persons with severe and chronic immobility. But since you have no understanding of the subject, you really don’t even know what is the “bottom of the barrel”.

Thats a sad admission when you think you are justified in how you treat people based on who is watching you.

Bottom of the barrel!

Your statement is based on a very narrow sample: publicly traded nursing home facilities. This isn’t close to being representative of the industry as a whole. That’s how.

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I’m not questioning that families abandon their elderly. It happens all the time. But I’m not sure what that has to do with the company who is receiving payment to care for these companies failing to do their jobs.

This is your idea of knowledge? Searching an internet engine and cherry-picking a few of the villa nursing home company’s? Over the years I have taken care of hundreds of hospitalized patient’s from nursing homes. Has there been at times problems with care…yes and I am not excusing poor care. However, I can’t tell you the countless numbers of people who have been shuttled off to these facilities and totally forgotten about by their families. If they had simnply taken an active role in there loved ones care instead of forgetting about them many abuses would have never have happened. Additionally as happy pointed out, you can have the very BEST care and still have bed sores, etc. It is the problem with total immobility. But I wouldn’t expect someone who is using yahoo finance as his expertise on the subject to have any clue what I am tlaking about.

Seriously, take a look at most of their balance sheets. They are available at Yahoo Finance.

Perhaps nursing homes should screen out diabetics and those that are immobile – that’d cut down the image of being neglectful dramatically, as even optimal care doesn’t guarantee freedom from bedsores – e.g. remember Christopher Reeve, who died with infected bedsores? did he have substandard care?)

And yet nursing homes are ridiculously profitable. I’m sure they can’t spare a buck to increase that pay.