Seven of these facilities no longer appear to be listed on any company website the rest have been divvied up.Ĭonsulate Health Care facilities in Florida now are listed as being operated by one of three companies: “When it has that address in Georgia, I know it’s a Consulate facility,” he said. Mailing addresses are considered an industry shorthand for determining a facility’s corporate ownership, according to Dean.

This was true even for facilities that had recently changed names to remove “Consulate Health Care” from their titles. The Times found that out of 77 senior homes with active licenses, 76 were owned by limited liability companies that still listed a Consulate office in Georgia as their mailing address. Using Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration data, the Tampa Bay Times analyzed all of the state’s long-term care facilities with licenses linked to Consulate Health Care’s official website in 2021. But licensing documents and corporate filings suggest the new owners of these facilities are related to the company. This bankruptcy filing, and the fanfare accompanying a high-profile federal lawsuit, may have contributed to the divvying up of Consulate Health Care’s nursing homes in Florida. 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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