A troubled skilled nursing operator is shuttering two of its facilities in Massachusetts, as pressure continues to mount from its creditors and Bay State regulators.
Synergy Health Centers said it will close its communities in Sunderland and Waban. The company has been saddled with debt, with more than $31 million in unpaid mortgage loans and other bills, the Boston Globe reported Friday. Eight of its facilities are now in the hands of a court-appointed receiver.
The provider has been hit with an array of fines for medication errors, inadequate staff training, lax infection control and improper treatment of pressure ulcers, the Globe noted.
Attempts to reach the Toms River, NJ, company Friday were unsuccessful, with the number on its website disconnected, and an email to its general address returned as undeliverable.
A Massachusetts resident advocate told the Globe that she has never seen a company “so egregious in their care and so draining in their finances.”
“They are leaving with a wide path of destruction behind them, harming the workers and the residents,” said Arlene Germain, president of Massachusetts Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
Several of Synergy’s homes are slated for sale, pending approval from the Department of Public Health and a judge. That would leave the New Jersey company with just a single remaining SNF in its control, for the moment.
Synergy also came into the crosshairs of state investigators in September, after it let insurance lapse for its employees.
