When a state inspector asked the administrator of Oasis Living Quarters last month why the 100 residents who used to live there had dwindled to fewer than 40, he said that there had been “a lot of deaths,” a rude nurse, renovations and challenges paying rent, according to a newly released report.
He did not say that the Fort Lauderdale senior living home had evicted all of its residents with no written notice to convert into luxury apartments.
Oasis now faces citations from the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration and a Broward County court injunction over its failure to give residents 45 days or any written notice to move out, records show. An AHCA report released in late March details the interactions between the inspector and the facility’s administrator, Steven Gottlieb, who repeatedly changed his answers to questions and denied knowledge of the evictions, as well as with residents and employees. One person told AHCA that Oasis tried to strike a deal with his own senior living company, offering to funnel the evicted residents there in exchange for money…