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As the state moves to revoke RegalCare of a dozen nursing home licenses following a Boston Globe Spotlight report on debilitating cost cutting, the company’s chief is involved in an effort to buy a nonprofit nursing home in Haverhill.
Last June, Covenant Health President and CEO Stephen J. Grubbs told staff the nonprofit planned to sell its 160-bed Penacook Place in downtown Haverhill to Azure Healthcare. Filings at the Secretary of State’s Corporations Division, however, suggest Azriel Lieberman, founder of Azure Healthcare Management, is working with RegalCare CEO Eliyahu Mirlis on the purchase of the Haverhill home…