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June 20, 2006

Woonsocket nursing home petitions for receivership

PROVIDENCE -- Lawyers for a Woonsocket nursing home and the state Health Department met with a state Superior Court judge today to discuss whether the home should be placed in a state form of bankruptcy and whether it should be sold to a Maryland company.

Mount St. Francis Health Center today petitioned to be placed in receivership and asked the court to appoint American Senior Living Communities, of Maryland, to run the home, with the expectation that American Heritage would seek to buy the home after it is in receivership, according to Gregg Perry, a spokesman for Mount St. Francis.

A Health Department spokeswoman this afternoon said that the lawyers will continue to meet with Judge Michael A. Silverstein and that officials expect a smooth transition for the nursing home. The spokeswoman said residents of the nursing home should not be affected by the transition.

The home’s current owner, Antonio L. Giordano, will be in federal court tomorrow, where he is expected to plead guilty to misusing $780,539 from Mount St. Francis and two other homes he owned: Hillside Health Center, in Providence, which closed in 2004, and the former Coventry Health Center, which he no longer owns.

-- Journal staff writer Paul Edward Parker

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