The ones with the lowest ratios and wages are the for-profit homes.

Unlike most for-profit adult homes, the Clinton Residence was designed to house people with mental illness.

By contrast, taxpayers spend more than $40,000 per year for the often shameful "care" residents receive in for-profit homes.

Federal researchers said they found that staffing levels were much higher at nonprofit nursing homes than at for-profit homes.

When inspectors visited 100-bed for-profit adult homes, they found thousands of mentally ill living in unsanitary, dilapidated conditions.

Yet despite this record of negligence and failure, approximately 30,000 New Yorkers remain in for-profit homes.

Scandal at for-profit adult homes is nothing new.

He said several other for-profit home care providers received the same rate of reimbursement as Premier but provided higher wages as well as health insurance.

Because for-profit homes need to make a profit, and profits cut into resident care.

Evidence of the defects in for-profit homes continues to pile up.