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Profits over patients: For-profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets

  • Written by Sean Campbell, Investigative journalist, The Conversation
imageThe for-profit nursing home sector is growing, and it places a premium on cost cutting and big profits, which has led to low staffing and patient neglect and mistreatment.picture alliance via Getty Images

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