Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry
Thursday, June 1st, 2006.
Nowhere in the nursing home industry is the corruption, patient neglect and abuse and Medicare and Medicaid fraud more blatant than within the giant nursing home chain of Beverly Enterprises. Based in Fort Smith, Arkansa it reportedly operates more than 400 nursing facilities, assisted living centers and hospices in 23 states and the District of Columbia.
The chain was supposedly sold a few months back, but a little digging under the layers of the conglomerate would probably find Beverly in there somewhere.
As far back as October 18, 1986, the New York Times reported a Beverly settlement with the State Department of Health Services, with an agreement to pay more than $600,000 in civil penalties as the result of an investigation of several of the company’s California facilities. The agreement stated that no new licenses would be issued to Beverly for a 14-month period.
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