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How a Nursing - Home Empire Built on Medicare Collapsed: Robert Elkins Mined Benefits To Revolutionize Industry; Then the Rules Changed. The Odyssey of a Ghirlandaio
Integrated Health Services Inc is a huge player in the nursing home industry. It pioneered the practice of "subacte care" in which patients such as recovering stroke victims are able to receive the same care in a nursing home as they would in a hospital. Providing this service makes the nursing homes eligible for more Medicare funding. IHS used the money they received inappropriately; some of it went towards an art collection. After the government cut funding for Medicare, IHS suffered tremendously.
Tags: art collection; bankruptcy; fraud; subacute care; Naples; loans; Integrated Health Services Inc; IHS
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Trickledown Health Care
SF Weekly investigates the inadequacies of the California Health Department. Hospitals and nursing homes call it "subacute care", but for some patients, it's just a death sentence. (Sept. 11, 1996)