Judge Refuses Nursing Home Injunction.
George Houser, owner of the Forum Healthcare Groups will have to go back before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to restore funding for patients at his nusing homes on Three Mile Rd. and Moran Lake Rd. in Rome.
U.S. District Judge Harold L. Murphy of Rome said yesterday that efforts to get an injunction blocking the feds from cutting off funding for his homes this Sunday were not jurisdictional.
The feds announced last month they were cutting off Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements to the two nursing homes July 15th after repeated health and safety violations at the two homes.
No patients are being forced to leave, but with no federal reimbursement, most cannot afford to stay.
