Shelly Olson News Today

More for-profit investment groups are buying skilled care nursing facilities and experts say the only way for them to be profitable is to reduce the quality of care.

Shelly Olson's mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a not-for-profit organization, the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.

For-profit groups own more than 70% of U.S. nursing homes. Industry leaders and researchers wonder whether corporations and investors can succeed where not-for-profit organizations have struggled. Or, will quality of care suffer in the name of making money?

Dorothy George had never planned to be a welder in a West Coast shipyard during World War II. She is mechanically inclined, but when the 99-year-old Mankato woman was a

Dorothy George had never planned to be a welder in a West Coast shipyard during World War II. She is mechanically inclined, but when the 99-year-old Mankato woman was a

For the Olson family and hundreds of others, the past year has been a juggling act between trying to find a temporary place to live, deciding whether to rebuild or move on and dealing with insurance companies in the wake of the East Troublesome Fire.