Harris Meyer
Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a not-for-profit organization, the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.
Then in 2019, Sanford Health — a not-for-profit, tax-exempt hospital system — acquired the nursing home. The covid-19 pandemic struck soon after. From then on, the facility was regularly short of staff, and residents endured long wait times and other care problems, said Olson, a registered nurse who formerly worked at the facility.
Now Scandia Village has a new, for-profit owner, Continuum Healthcare . Olson said she was reassured when Continuum hired two locals as the facility’s new administrator and nursing director.
But Kathy Wagner, a former Scandia Village nursing director, is not optimistic. “The for-profit owner will face the same problems,” said Wagner...
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