FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Oasis Living Quarters in Fort Lauderdale now faces citations from the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration.
A jarring 30-page report reveals what happened when an inspector arrived on the heels of several complaints against the facility.
Oasis is accused of abruptly evicting its senior residents without proper notice while secretly converting its complex into luxury apartments.
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Workers were seen on Friday moving torn out drywall while senior residents were still moving.
A judge had already granted an emergency injunction against Oasis, after the family of Rema Comras, 88, filed a lawsuit in March, adding to the choir of voices that said the facility never provided them with notice to leave.
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The move is similar to a nationwide trend attorneys have been tracking coming from the Northeast.
The newly released unannounced state inspection report reveals the strange interactions between the inspector and the administrator for Oasis Living Quarters, identified on state records at Steven Gottlieb.
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Gottlieb denied there were any evictions and blamed deaths and rude nurses for why the resident population dropped significantly since an inspector’s last visit.
The administrator is quoted and repeatedly changes his answers.
The inspector also interviewed various residents still at Oasis, who all said they were huddled for a mandatory meeting on March 5 and told to leave for renovations.
“ You’ll have 30 days to move out,” one resident testified in court for that temporary injunction. “When you move back, there will be no more assisted living, no more memory care, no more food service and no more busses.”
The inspector later catches the administrator admitting that residents would be leaving.
The inspector asks to see the written notice that was given and is handed a February letter, per that report, that outlines dining room improvements and facility projects that might “temporarily” disrupt service.
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