Experience
Advised a Large Nursing Home Through a Medicare Audit Appeal
Dinsmore advised a large Ohio nursing home through a three stages of a Medicare audit appeal in connection with physical therapy services. Our attorneys represented the client before an administrative law judge and reduced a multi-million dollar Medicare overpayment to less than $15,000.
FHA/HUD Financing Under the LEAN Program
Represented O’Neill Management and its affiliates in the FHA/HUD LEAN Program financing in the amount of $11,600,000 for a skilled nursing facility located in North Olmstead, Ohio.
FHA/HUD Financing Under the LEAN Program
Represented Meadow Wind Associates, L.P. in the FHA/HUD LEAN Program financing in the amount of $1,575,000 for a skilled nursing facility located in Massillon, Ohio.
FHA/HUD Financing Under the LEAN Program
Represented a nursing care provider in the FHA/HUD LEAN Program financing in the amount of $7,464,000 for a skilled nursing facility located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Health Care Lending
Represented FirstMerit Bank, N.A. in a $5,775,000 financing of skilled nursing facilities located in Painesville, Ohio.
Health Care Lending
Represented Kendal of Granville in the purchase of $22,010,000 of revenue Refunding and Improvements Bonds, $17,000,000 of construction/mini-perm loan, a $6,500,000 draw loan, a $2,500,000 revolving line of credit and interest rate derivative SWAPs for a skilled nursing and independent care facility located in Granville, Ohio.
Health Care Lending
Represented a nursing care provider in multiple financing projects, including $8,000,000 construction financing of a skilled nursing facility located in Beavercreek, Ohio and $8,630,000 construction financing of a skilled nursing facility located in Colerain, Ohio.
Conducted the Sale of Multiple Assisted Living Facilities
We assisted our client with the sale of nine nursing home/assisted living facilities. Our client wished to leave the nursing home industry, and we negotiated and prepared the sale/purchase transaction documents.
Successfully Argued Against a CON for a Client’s Competitor
Our client, a nursing facility, was concerned that a project proposed by a competing facility would adversely affect their business. The competitor’s facility would have been less than a mile from our client, and the surrounding area already includes multiple nursing facilities. We successfully appealed the decision to grant a Certificate of Need (CON) to the competitor during an Ohio Department of Health administrative hearing.
Successfully Argued for a Nursing Home’s Right to Transfer a Resident
We successfully won an administrative hearing before the Ohio Department of Health granting our client, a nursing home, the right to discharge or transfer a resident. The facility proposed the discharge because it believed the resident was a threat to other residents and to staff.
Counseled Nonprofit in Sale of Two Nursing Homes
We represented an owner in the $14 million sale of two nonprofit nursing homes in Ohio. Our role included negotiating terms of the sale, negotiating a purchase agreement, coordinating due diligence, filing appropriate documentation with state regulators, handling special considerations for the sale of a nonprofit property, and closing the transaction.
Counseled Nursing Home Owner in Sale of Two Nursing Homes
We represented an owner of nursing homes in the sale of two Ohio facilities. Our role included negotiating terms of the $16.7 million sale, negotiating a purchase agreement, coordinating due diligence, filing appropriate documentation with state regulators, resolving real property issues at the sites, and closing the transaction.
Counseled Our Client During a Real Estate, Entity Sale
Our client was selling the real estate and operating entities from two nursing homes. We advised our client on the deal’s financing, including ancillary loans and real estate transfers, as well as the final sales price.