Too Many Lawsuits Or Bad Nursing Home Care? What's Behind Bankruptcy, Injuries, Deaths at Texas-based Chain

A trail of blood and brains led nursing home staff in Houston to a room where a mentally ill resident had beaten his two roommates to death.A 45-year-old man who had been missing for hours at his Kentucky nursing home was found dead in a stairwell, his wheelchair on top of his chest.And residents were left for hours in dirty diapers, clothes and sheets as they waited for help at seven New Mexico nursing facilities, the state’s attorney general alleges.A stream of documented complaints from three separate states flows back to one nursing home operator: Preferred Care of Plano, which filed for bankruptcy in November.  Continue reading...

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