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...Successor Mark Crossley has been nursing the group back to health. A solid financial performance shows the patient is now better. Net sales rose 22 per cent last year to $791mn....
...There was also evidence that nursing cuts were structured in ways to reduce costs to the owners while maximising reimbursements from public health systems....
...By operating faster and starting rehab straight away, Espoo managed to cut their hospital time by a third and reduce the death rate by 6-7 per cent....
...“Two-thirds of our spending for Medicaid is for seniors and nursing homes. A lot of our spending is on children who get healthcare....
...This is one of the few times in my life that I’m nursing no upsets at all, and it is a strange feeling. Perhaps there’ll be one or two coming round the corner presently....
...The company’s lenders have been in debt restructuring negotiations since the summer, when it became apparent that the nursing home group would not meet a September debt repayment....
...As part of a wider plan to bring in new revenue streams, Mr Scott intends to launch a nursing home division and expand the education business for children with learning and physical disabilities....
...“You can do all the rehab in the world but it still won’t replicate what may happen when you play sport,” warns Bennett....
...In most hospitals, even new ones, the feel is of a neglected nursing home. Furniture and fittings are mismatched and seemingly random....
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