Meji Home
Michigan’s taxpayers deserve accountability from nursing home corporations for proper stewardship of the billions of dollars of Medicare and Medicaid funds nursing homes receive each year. And older adults and people with disabilities who live in nursing homes deserve to live with dignity and access to high quality care. Only with strong advocacy from Michiganders across our state will we be able to hold for-profit nursing homes accountable. We urge state legislators, policymakers, Ombudsmen, advocates, residents, and citizens across the state to take action and advocate for nursing home transparency and accountability in Michigan.
For nursing home residents and their families and friends:
For every Michigander including nursing home residents and their families, advocates, and Ombudsmen:
For legislators, policymakers, and regulators:
Work with us to implement the report’s key recommendations
To ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent on care and not diverted to excessive and hidden profits, Michigan should:
- Require each nursing home to submit an audited consolidated cost report annually. This report would require nursing home chains to comprehensively report financial information on all the companies they own or operate that are related to the operation of nursing homes they own or operate.
- Increase the auditing capacity of both CMS and MDHHS.
- Require increased disclosure requirements for related party companies. Nursing homes should be required to show what they received for payments made to a related party, how much was profit to the related party, and document that this cost was reasonable.
- Make information on cost reports easily accessible to the general public, policymakers, researchers, and advocates.
- Require nursing homes to document that they spend a required percentage of public funds on services that have a direct and positive impact on residents including staffing, resident care, and resident quality of life.