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[Joseph] Schwartz and his company [Skyline Healthcare LLC] made national news in 2019, when NBC News reported that Schwartz’s company, Skyline Healthcare, was in serious trouble. It said more than a dozen of its nearly 100 nursing homes had closed, “throwing residents, vendors, employees and state regulators into chaos.” The report, which said the company was run from a small office above a New Jersey pizzeria, called it the story of how “one man built an empire that quickly crumbled, with painful consequences for vulnerable people.”

The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon (*Washington Post, November 23, 2025)

“They’ve really been bound to a hospital design model from the 1960s and 1970s. Nursing homes are so structurally, financially, operationally — and by regulation — bound to that model that it’s not easy for them to transition.

“What’s really missing here are a whole range of incentives that states commonly use to promote other policy goals. These are common in every state, but nobody has used them yet for incentivizing the small household model.”

Charlie Sabatino, a consultant on aging and law and immediate past director of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging, Despite success of small-house nursing home model, few states incentivize it(McKnights Long-Term Care News, November 22, 2025)

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Dignity Alliance Massachusetts is dedicated to transformative change to ensure the dignity of older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers.  We are committed to advancing new ways of providing long-term services, support, living options, and care, while respecting choice and self-determination.  Through education, legislation, regulatory reform, and legal strategies, this mission will become reality throughout the Commonwealth.

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