When ownership, management, real estate, and staffing can all be divided among different companies, How difficult does that make it to determine who is accountable?

Well, it's hugely difficult.

So there are law firms that file personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits against nursing homes, and they'll have lawyers on staff who do almost nothing but try to track down who actually owns Shady Acres Retirement Center, who actually owns this place.

I mean, there'll be papers at the Secretary of State's office that list an owner, but there'll be a shell company, and then another shell company owns that, and then a real estate conglomerate owns that, and then there's a private equity firm behind that.

Good luck finding the human beings.

And that's done deliberately.

It's done to shield them from legal liability.

If you had a parent or a spouse who needed nursing home care tomorrow, what are the two or three things that you would look into before choosing a facility?