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Title image of Investigate Europe: 'Grey Gold' report on for-profit takeover of Europe's Care Homes with euro coins and woman pushing elderly person in a wheelchair

How They Did It News & Analysis

How They Did It: Inside the For-Profit Takeover of Europe’s Elder Care Homes

Reporters for Investigate Europe (IE) spent months examining the consequences of a seismic shift in Europe’s elder care homes, where for-profit companies have increasingly taken over the industry. Their investigation explored how this shift has affected residents and staff, and dug into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of society’s most vulnerable people.

Medical Debt Letters, Healthcare

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Reading 50,000 Records to Expose a Hospital Bankrupting Poor Patients

When Giacomo Bologna was working on his first freelance story, he reached out to the Fund for Investigative Journalism for help. With a grant to cover his gas mileage, the cost of copying records, and his time, Bologna set up shop in a small room on the third floor of a courthouse in Mississippi and started reviewing paper files to trace a large nonprofit hospital’s practice of aggressively pursuing payment from thousands of poor patients.