A large nursing home chain is the subject of a new lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Gary King. State officials allege facility management profited by skimping on staff.
Seven nursing homes in New Mexico were targeted by the lawsuit. The managing company, Preferred Care Partners Management Group, has assisted living facilities in at least ten states including Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.
Phil Sisneros is a spokesman for the New Mexico Attorney General’s office. He said thin staffing is intertwined with several lapses in care.
"The residents in the facilities were left in their own human waste and were not cleaned, in other words, or not repositioned or moved as they should have been. They were not assisted with meals or liquids as they should have been, and they suffered falls very often when unattended," Sisneros said.
In a statement, Preferred Care Management Partners said they had not yet seen the complaint but believed the practices the attorney general is targeting occurred before the company bought the nursing homes in question.
