Pleasant Care On Auction Block
Thursday, June 28th, 2007.
Flintridge, CA – After years of fines, penalties and accusations of elder abuse, La Cañada-based Pleasant Care Corp., the state’s second largest nursing home corporation, is set to auction all 30 of its California facilities.
Pleasant Care, which filed for bankruptcy in March of this year, has had many years of trouble. There have been private lawsuits as well as fines and violations of codes and conduct brought against the corporation by the state attorney general’s office. Pleasant Care and CEO Emmanuel I. Bernabe owns or has interest in more than 30 nursing homes throughout California. This month the California Department of Health Services levied an $80,000 fine against a Pleasant Care facility in Norwalk after an investigation found that poor healthcare resulted in the death of a 54-year-old resident in August 2005.
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