I'm just asking out of general curiosity. Has anyone ever heard of a nursing home/residential LTC facility that is owned by a group of nurses?
Lately there has been a lot of info posted around here and in the news about nursing homes being run by really sketchy corporations, who have everything except the long term well being of the residents and staff in mind. I don't know a lot about this, but it's pretty scary.
When physicians felt that hospital administrators were making too many decisions that affected their incomes and autonomy, groups of physicians across the country started their own hospitals, HMO's, and clinics. Dean Healthcare in is an example where I live, but there are many others. I'm not saying this has been a good thing for patients, I think these hospitals can be pretty terrible, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
I just have this vision of a professional group of nurses getting together and building a nursing home where nurses make the rules, make the profits (if there are any to be had), and provide the care, similar in many ways to how MD's have been building hospitals. I can think of a several reasons why this might not work (nurses have less money to invest than MD's, less profit in LTC than in hospitals, fewer nurses with experience running their own practice...), but I wonder if anyone's ever tried it or thought of it.