The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has said it intends to revoke all 12 of a chain’s nursing home licenses after media reports detailed deteriorating conditions, blasted declining ratings and used a questionable cost-reporting analysis to make accusations about staffing.
On Tuesday, the state notified RegalCare and its CEO Eli Mirlis, who the Boston Globe investigated after it found he was able to continue acquiring properties despite standards that patients and families said were declining.
The exposé had already sparked renewed interest in statewide nursing home oversight and now officials appear to be going after RegalCare and Mirlis directly…