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MEJI's Salli Pung Quoted in MLive Article on Troubled Nursing Home Chain

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“The feedback that we’re hearing from residents is that the care they’re receiving [in their new facilities] and the food they’re being served and the activities are so much better,” said Salli Pung, Michigan’s long-term care ombudsman, whose office assisted in the relocation. “I think it’s telling that this home really wasn’t able to provide that minimum standards that are required by [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]. I don’t think that it’s a bad thing that this home closed.”