About New Beginnings LLC
› Headquarters: Hixson › Founders: Debbie Jones, CEO, and Trent Tolbert, Chief Acquisitions Officer › Facilities: It operates 15 nursing homes in five states › Annual payroll: More than $48 million › Staff: 1,300 employees New Beginnings Care’s remaining nursing homes: › Mt. Pleasant Health Care and Rehab, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. › Abbeville, Ga., Health and Rehab › Eastman, Ga., Health and Rehab › Midway, Ga., Woodlands Health Care › Oceanside, Tybee Island, Ga. › Savannah Beach Nursing and Rehab, Tybee Island, Ga. › Pinewood Nursing Center, Whigham, Ga. › Edwards Redeemer, Oklahoma City, Okla. Source: New Beginnings officials, filings in U.S. Bankrupty Court in Chattanooga
Trent Tolbert, cofounder and chief acquisitions officer of New Beginnings Care, walks back to the U. S. Bankruptcy Court on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Chattanooga, Tenn., during a recess in proceedings involving his company. On Monday, the court refused to stop Medicare and Medicaid from cutting reimbursements to one of the nursing homes operated by New Beginnings Care.Nursing home patients will be removed from a Georgia facility today after a federal judge rejected a company request to halt the government’s cutoff of Medicare and Medicaid payments because of patient neglect.
New Beginnings, a Hixson company that has already been cited or threatened with the loss of government payments for patients at a handful of other nursing homes, lost its bid Monday to halt a government finding that the company mistreated Medicare and Medicaid patients at a 131-bed nursing home in Jeffersonville, Ga., southeast of Macon.
On Jan. 13, state inspectors reported “squalid conditions” there, according to a filing by U.S. Attorney Kent Anderson in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chattanooga. The regulators found five out of nine toilets had malfunctioned for at least two weeks in a locked unit for 29 patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
“Take me out, take me out, it smells bad in here!” said a resident whose room was flooded by an overflowing toilet, the filing says. Footprints showed that staff tracked the sewage out into the hallway, potentially contaminating the rest of the nursing home, the filing says.