Nursing home owners to sue HSE over unpaid fees

PRIVATE nursing home owners are to sue the Health Service Executive for not paying money owed to them for contracted beds.

The owners, all members of Nursing Homes Ireland, claim the health authority has refused to pay annual increases due to them.

The organisation’s chief executive, Tadhg Daly, said there was an agreement between the HSE and individual nursing home owners on an annual cost of living increase, together with an agreed formula for the computation of the increase.