The bad apples among for profit nursing homes.

In general, and to continue our earlier point, you should not be wary of for-profit nursing homes if they are known to be good, as their profit status is generally not an indication of how much quality care they provide. However, you should be wary of a certain subcategory of for-profit nursing homes.

About 5% of the nursing homes that are open for profit are owned by equity firms, and according to experts, these types of establishments are going to offer you lower quality when it comes to long-term care. Studies have shown that some of them found that care was compromised when things like short-term mortality and COVID-19 infections and deaths were analyzed, as private equity nursing homes had increased numbers in all three categories when compared to other types of nursing homes.

Again, these things will vary from one nursing home to another, so you need to do your due diligence and research everything you can before going to a nursing home.