The Political Economy of Nursing Homes By MARY ADELAIDE MENDELSON AND DAVID HAPGOOD
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Mary Adelaide Mendelson is the author of Tender Loving Greed, a study of the nursing home industry, published this year by Alfred A. Knopf. Mrs. Mendelson graduated from Radcliffe and received her Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She has been a consultant to the Federation for Community Planning of Cleveland since 1964. David Hapgood is a journalist. His most recent book is the forthcoming The Screwing of the Average Man, to be published by Doubleday. ABSTRACT: The nursing home industry receives threequarters of its income from government. The industry earns high profits while providing poor patient care. Considerable swindling of government funds occurs. One category is nickel and diming, which consists of clipping every possible dollar from government money as it passes through nursing home accounts. Another method—large scale and often within the law—involves the manipulation of ownership and mortgages. There are several causes for the failure of
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