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by Dan Levine | September 15, 2005 1:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

One of Connecticut's leading nursing home chains owes a furniture supplier over $180,000, according to a new lawsuit. No big deal?

Haven Healthcare, owner of 17 nursing home facilities in Connecticut- including locations in West Hartford and New Haven- owes Massachusetts-based supplier Adden Furniture $183,000 and change, according to a lawsuit filed in Hartford Superior Court last week.

The nursing home chain acknowledges over $95,000 of the debt, according to a letter from Haven's Senior Vice President Anthony Scierka to Adden. However, the company disputes the rest of the amount, saying it never ordered the furniture Adden claims it did.

Many Connecticut nursing homes- especially those with more Medicaid patients- are in a precarious financial situation, due to the state's underfunding of Medicaid reimbursements to those facilities.

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