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Nursing home regulators in six states are monitoring facilities run by an Oklahoma company that officials say has "literally walked away" from financial responsibility for the homes. California, Indiana, Oklahoma and Texas regulators already have installed temporary managers at 33 nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and intermediate-- care facilities for people with mental retardation operated by TLC Health Care, a for-profit company in Oklahoma City. The actions were prompted by TLC Health Care's poor finances, which led to missed payrolls, low food and medicine supplies, and utilities being cut off because of overdue bills, regulators said.
Regulators in Illinois and Wisconsin said they are monitoring conditions at six TLC homes in those states, although neither state had taken any enforcement action as of last week.
The company and its owner, Rocky Lemon, "literally walked away" from three troubled homes in California, said Lea Brooks, a...