Ed Dudensing Featured in KFF Health News Investigation on Real Estate Investors’ Role in Nursing Home Neglect
April 21, 2026
Originally published by
NPR
Dudensing Law Founder Ed Dudensing is featured in a new KFF Health News investigation published in NPR that exposes how real estate investment trusts (REITs) have taken control of the nation’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities with devastating consequences for residents.
The piece, “Real estate investors are buying up long-term care facilities. Residents can suffer,” discusses a recent Dudensing Law verdict. In March 2026, a Sacramento County jury awarded a $110 million total verdict against Colony Capital, the publicly traded REIT, and Formation Capital, the private equity investment firm that oversaw Greenhaven Estates, on behalf of the four daughters of Mildred Hernandez. Mildred was 100 years old, lived with Alzheimer’s dementia, and died of hypothermia after wandering from the facility in the middle of the night. The verdict is the largest elder neglect verdict against an assisted living facility in California history.
As Ed told NPR: “REIT money is very detached from knowing about or caring about patient or resident outcomes, because it’s not in their business model. Their allegiance is to their investors.”