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WHAS-TV Exclusive: Top Nursing Home Investigator Is Fired, Now Subject of Corruption Probe

10:45 PM Thu, Jul 17, 2008 |
Mark Hebert

WHAS 11 News has learned that the number two state regulator of Kentucky nursing homes was fired in May for having an improper relationship with a northern Kentucky nursing home operator. Moses Young lives in a home, perhaps rent free, that is owned by the owner of the Garrard Convalescent Home in Covington. Young also made hundreds of calls from his state cell phone to Ralph Stacey Jr., many of them on the same days the state received complaints about Garrard or its investigators were making "surprise" inspections at the facility. Here's the video version of my story as well as the written script.



1 Comments

Melanie Salsbury said:

As a person and as a licensed Nursing Home Administrator in Kentucky and Indiana, this news is disturbing and disappointing. I don't know if the owner of the Garrard Home was actually the Administrator running it, but most nurisng home administrators and/or owners do the thankless job of running a facility because they genuinely care about the people residing there. Most of us are proud of our ability to run an outstanding home and would never engage in inappropriate relationships such as the one described. I am however, happy to see that the press is reporting potential corruption within the state entity that enforces regulatory compliance in Kentucky's nursing homes and not putting all of the focus on the owner of the home. All too often reporters jump at the opportunity to report negative events involving the care of residents in nursing homes. The public rarely gets a glimpse of the other side of the coin which sadly can involve unfair, angry, and vindictive state surveyors who truly don't have the residents best interests in mind. It is truly the nursing home administrators and the staff in the facilities that are out there really trying to improve the lives of those they serve; not the regulatory entities.


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