Connecticut has been probing the finances and conditions of the nursing
homes within its borders, with many of them being put into receivership
as a result. Others have filed for bankruptcy.
Affinity Health Care
Management Inc., which operates four nursing homes in the state, filed
for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District
of New York in Manhattan on Tuesday. Its fifth home, Crescent Manor,
was placed into state receivership in the beginning of the month. The
debtor filed for bankruptcy protection just days before a preliminary investigation of the entire chains finances were due.
East Hartford, Conn.-based Marathon Healthcare Group LLC
filed for Chapter 11 in April to avoid state Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal putting its chain of seven nursing homes into receivership.
Blumenthal
wants increased state oversight of nursing homes through regular audits
of facility finances. He also wants it to be easier for the state to
seek receivership of nursing homes that are misusing or mismanaging
state funds.
Financially troubled Haven Eldercare LLC filed for
bankruptcy protection in November 2007 because of its concern that the
state was going to put its homes into receivership. Blumenthal is still
investigating Haven's former CEO, Raymond S. Termini, for his alleged
gross mismanagement of the chain's 25 nursing homes throughout New
England, despite the fact that its bankruptcy case was dismissed and
its nursing homes were turned over to its secured creditors and the
state in July. - Jamie Mason
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