A recent report from the Boston Globe Spotlight team exposed a pattern of declining care at nursing homes run by a rapidly expanding out-of-state operator, Eli Mirlis of RegalCare. It also found that the state’s Department of Public Health, the agency in charge of licensing these operators, continued to usher them in despite a documented record of poor care in other states.
Dr. Robbie Goldstein, the Commissioner of the DPH, joined GBH’s Morning Edition to discuss those findings. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.
Tori Bedford: So first, let’s break down what’s actually happened. Globe reporter Kay Lazar spoke with our colleagues at GBH’s All Things Considered and pointed out some of the many violations that were uncovered in this report…