Patients at Mass. nursing homes suffered as executives pocketed big paydays, AG says – The Boston Globe
Andover, Massachusetts Nursing Home Neglect After Bear Mountain’s $2.75M Settlement — Your Family Still Has a Separate Case You heard the news. The Massachusetts Attorney General announced a $2.75 million settlement with Bear Mountain Healthcare for chronic understaffing across eleven nursing homes — including Bear Mountain at Andover — between April 2021 and December 2025. The AG said executives pocketed big paydays while residents suffered medication errors and life-threatening injuries. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Andover or Lawrence or Methuen right now, thinking about your mother or father or grandmother who was at one of those facilities during those years, and you may be thinking: good, the state handled it. We need to tell you something before that thought settles. The $2.75 million settlement resolves the government’s enforcement action. It does not compensate a single resident. It does not pay a single family for a medication error, a bedsore that turned into sepsis, a fall that broke a hip, or a death that should not have happened. The money goes to the state. Your family’s rights — to sue Bear Mountain for what happened to your loved one — are completely separate, completely intact, and running…