Blindsided: Some nursing homes across the country aggressively pursue friends and relatives for a loved one’s unpaid bill

Blindsided: Some nursing homes across the country aggressively pursue friends and relatives for a loved one’s unpaid bill 
14 News; by Jill Riepenhoff and Chris Nakamoto; 8/11/25 
Toni Cook opened the letter from her mother’s nursing home and cried in horror. Lynn Marie Witt dropped to her knees and sobbed when she read the letter from her mother’s nursing home. Both women — stiff and grief-stricken over the loss of their beloved mothers — learned from those letters that the nursing homes intended to collect their mothers’ unpaid debts from them. Neither had any financial control over their mother’s bank accounts or assets after their deaths, court records say. They simply were loving daughters who signed paperwork to have their mothers admitted to a nursing home.