Care Fakers

This Week In Blunders - June 1-7

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.” – Herbert Ward

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Toddlers play on busy streets while the elderly languish in filthy, understaffed, pest-infested facilities.

Sometimes it’s unbridled profiteering. Sometimes it’s stupid neglect by a badly run organization. But too often the joys of childhood and golden years are robbed.

Two sorry examples emerged this week: KinderCare, the nation’s biggest daycare conglomerate, and American Health Foundation, which runs nursing homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

KinderCare doesn’t care. (Illustration: AI generated.)

First KinderCare. Substack’s Edwin Dorsey of The Bear Cave reported this week that his investigation into the chain’s myriad lapses has lawmakers demanding accountability. It’s worth reading in full, but I’ll let him summarize here:

“KinderCare often fails to deliver the safe and nurturing environment it promises parents and taxpayers. The Bear Cave finds that toddlers escape from the KinderCare daycares onto busy roads, are left alone locked inside KinderCare buildings and buses, and are physically, verbally, and sexually abused, with many cases going unreported until bystanders raise alarm or video evidence circulates. In sum, The Bear Cave believes KinderCare is a broken business that harms the children and families it claims to help.”

Wall Street has taken notice, too, with the company’s stock down more than 36% this year.

Then there’s American Health Foundation, its affiliate AHF Management Corp., and three affiliated nursing homes — Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia, The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place in Dayton, Ohio, and Samaritan Care Center and Villa in Medina, Ohio.