The Justice Department and the whistleblower filing the claim eventually agreed to settle for far less, leaving Consulate responsible for only $4.5 million in light of the company declaring bankruptcy. By 2018, the for-profit company controlled one out of every nine nursing homes in Florida, the Naples Daily News reported, including 13 in Tampa Bay. A household nameĬonsulate was well known in Florida even before the pandemic struck. With new company names and opaque relationships, he said, consumers searching for a nursing home in Florida may have a hard time knowing a facility’s prior history or current ownership. It’s the same employees, the same leadership - but it’s now under a new, rebranded fancy name.” “But no one is ever going to know that the new ‘Happy Nursing Home LLC’ is actually the same exact people as Consulate. “If you Google Consulate, you’ve got 20 years of bad press,” said Bill Dean, a former Miami-Dade prosecutor who now specializes in suing nursing homes. Such reorganization leaves consumers in the dark, critics say. Many of Consulate’s Florida nursing homes have begun to change their individual names as well, erasing any affiliation with the chain. But we are still the corporate office for any of those companies.”

Anything inside the state of Florida has been divvied up among Radiant, Independence and NSPIRE. “Anything that’s outside of the state of Florida is still considered Consulate.

“Consulate broke into four different companies,” said a receptionist at Consulate Health Care’s office in Georgia.

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