When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home

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One resident, Marcelline Niemann, had previously worked with incarcerated people and had demonstrated against the death penalty. After the ownership change, Niemann sustained a pelvic fracture from falling multiple times. (Citing HIPAA, a spokesperson for Portopiccolo said only that the company’s “records specifically refute these allegations.”) A friend of Niemann’s at the home, Sunni Southward, told me that Niemann continued falling. Marcelline passed away on August 2nd, her ninety-seventh birthday. In one case, medical treatment was delayed because of concerns about insurance coverage. Inspection records from a facility in Randallstown, Maryland, indicate that a resident with a gangrenous foot was held back from three appointments with a vascular surgeon.

“But the pandemic and the lockdowns of nursing homes made it difficult,” Sister Mary John said, of securing a buyer. In the spring of 2021, an offer materialized from the Portopiccolo Group, a private-equity firm based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, which then had a portfolio of more than a hundred facilities across the East Coast. “They said they like to keep things the way they are,” Sister Mary John told me.

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Accordius Health was responsible for “management and consulting” of the home, based on its contract. Mary Cummings, a ninety-seven-year-old resident who had lived at St. Joseph’s for six years, went seven days without a bath. Betty Zane Wingo, a ninety-four-year-old resident, went several months without having her hair washed. A resident who suffered from a severe lung disease told me that, one evening, her oxygen tube slipped out, and it took an hour and a half and a call to 911 to get it plugged back in. Several family members told me they called the nursing station to express concerns but that no one picked up. On morning shifts, the home’s nurse aides now changed briefs so saturated with urine they’d turned brown.

Public advised to be on lookout for cold-stunned animals

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Many people, however, are discharged directly from hospitals to one of the nation’s more than 15,000 nursing homes, leaving little time for research. In July, August Healthcare announced a ten-million-dollar expansion to the home. The home will receive a unit for dialysis patients, and another for Alzheimer’s, dementia, and stroke patients, as part of a wider strategy to move the home’s patient base toward more medically complex residents. A month before the announcement, management hiked up rent in the home’s apartments—in some cases, from five hundred dollars a month to fifteen hundred. Under Portopiccolo’s ownership, the home had gone from about a hundred employees to sixty.

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Simcha Hyman, the C.E.O. of Portopiccolo, grew up in Brooklyn, where his mother, who raised him and his brothers alone, worked at an elderly-care home. The family subsisted, at times, on food donated by members of their religious community. In 2007, Hyman enrolled at a private institution, then called Touro College, before transferring to Brooklyn College, where his coursework included accounting, business management, and human resources. While still in school, he worked at RiteCare Medical Products, a medical-supply company in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Naftali Zanziper, who is now Portopiccolo’s president, had started at RiteCare two years earlier.

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