Independence Living Centers’ website appears to have launched in early January.Twenty-two of its residents had died of COVID-19 by the time the state stopped publishing nursing home data in June 2021. The nursing home experienced an early, deadly coronavirus outbreak at the same time that Congress was investigating Consulate Health Care for its handling of the pandemic. Consulate Health Care of Brandon, one of its Tampa Bay facilities, is now Raydiant Health Care of Brandon. Many Consulate nursing homes have been renamed using the Raydiant moniker.Johnson used her official Consulate company email address. Johnson, attorney and director of licensing and certification at Consulate Health Care. The application to create the name “Raydiant Health Care” was submitted to the Florida Department of State’s Division of Corporations in September 2021 by Charlene G.Raydiant Health Care Services’ website says the company has led the way in rehabilitative care in Florida since “opening their doors to the Sunshine State in 2021.”.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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