Mission Point Health Care Sold For $ 10 + Liabilities

Mission Point Health Care ran 8 extended care nursing homes in Michigan, but none of them well.  The Mission Point Health Care business, sans real estate, was just sold for $ 10:

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/11/troubled-michigan-nursing-homes-sold-off-for-10-plus-debts.html

Troubled Michigan nursing homes sold off for $10 plus debts
By Matthew Miller | November 22, 2025

Mission Point Health Care owed nearly $5 million in overdue rent by the time eight of the troubled Michigan nursing home chain’s facilities were taken over by a court-appointed receiver earlier this year.

The company had failed to repay loans worth nearly $6.8 million, according to a declaration filed in court by a representative of the companies that owned the real estate for eight Mission Point homes.

It owed $4.7 million in state taxes and other fees and penalties, the declaration said, and millions more in fines imposed by the federal government for patient abuse and neglect.

One of the homes was shut down.

The final seven nursing homes to bear the Mission Point name – just the businesses, not the real estate – were sold at the end of October to an investment group connected to the Villa nursing home chain, according to Michael Flanagan, the court-appointed receiver who had handled Mission Point’s business affairs since February.

The sales price was $10 and the assumption of millions in liabilities, according to court documents.

Which appears to mark the end of what had been one of the worst nursing home chains in the country, a company cited by the federal government for horrific abuse, allowing patients to develop maggots in their wounds, widespread COVID outbreaks and general neglect.

The Villa chain, which ultimately ended up with three of the homes, has had quality problems of its own, according to court records.

Mission Point

Neither Mission Point’s attorney nor its owners, founder Roger Mali and the Mitchell Family Office, a Birmingham private equity firm, responded to requests to discuss the sale of the last of their homes.

Daniel Kunstlinger, a representative of the companies that owned the buildings in Flint, Ypsilanti and in several Detroit suburbs where the Mission Point homes operated, declined to discuss the sale.

Kunstlinger is managing director and executive counsel for Cammeby’s International, as well as chief operating officer and general counsel for SMV Property Holdings.

The local real estate companies asked Oakland County Circuit Judge Victoria Valentine to place eight Mission Point homes in receivership. Valentine complied in late February, finding that Mission Point had failed to pay its debts and that the homes in question were unlikely to earn enough to be able to meet those obligations in the foreseeable future.

Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation Center of Madison Heights
Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation Center of Madison Heights was shut down in July and its 78 residents relocated. The federal government had designated it as one of the worst-performing nursing homes in the country. Matthew Miller
Over the summer, Mission Point’s facility in Madison Heights, where state inspectors had found rampant violence between residents and a state ombudsman found bags of trash piling up in the hallways, was shut down at Flanagan’s request and its 78 residents were relocated.

The home had been placed into a federal remediation program for the worst performing nursing homes in the country and it was losing money besides, Valentine wrote. Shutting it down in an orderly and controlled manner seemed better than “having to close quickly due to a government mandate.”

“The feedback that we’re hearing from residents is that the care they’re receiving [in their new facilities] and the food they’re being served and the activities are so much better,” said Salli Pung, Michigan’s long-term care ombudsman, whose office assisted in the relocation. “I think it’s telling that this home really wasn’t able to provide that minimum standards that are required by [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]. I don’t think that it’s a bad thing that this home closed.”

At the same time, other homes were dropping the Mission Point name.

In the spring, a dozen Mission Point homes were rebranded as Intersect Healthcare, though it was unclear whether the homes had been sold outright or simply changed management companies.

Workers at the rebranded homes directed questions to Bill Gray, chief human resources officer at Prestige Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky, which owns the Medilodge chain of nursing homes in Michigan. He declined to discuss the arrangement.

Around the same time, Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation of Detroit, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $9.5 million in debts.

Mali, who had retained control of the Detroit facility, said in an emailed statement earlier this year that, “This legal process in no way affects our focus on, or ability to, provide the highest level of care for our residents and best working environment for our staff. We anticipate confirming our reorganization plan in the next coming months.”

The home has since rebranded as Lafayette Park Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Another Mission Point facility in Holly has rebranded as Holly Village Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

Following the sale of the remaining seven homes, Mission Point’s website appears to have gone dark.

Villa

Villa, which purchased the homes, has its own history of violations and poor care.

Over the summer, the owners of six Villa nursing homes in Michigan reached a $4.5 million settlement with the federal government and the state of Michigan to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit alleging they had deceived the federal government into paying for “unprovided or grossly substandard care and services.”

The original complaint, filed by whistleblowers in 2019, alleged the homes had “deliberately understaffed nursing personnel to save on costs.”

After the settlement was announced, Villa said in a statement that it had since completed a change of ownership and had “renewed focus on elevating care, enhancing environments, and strengthening culture across all locations.”

But the company did not respond to a question about the details of the ownership change, and the owners named in the original complaint still held ownership stakes in at least some of the six homes at the time of the settlement, according to ownership data on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website.

Villa was also one of the companies singled out by the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative and The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care for concealing profits by essentially doing business with themselves. Mission Point was another.

The practice is called tunneling by industry experts. It’s legal, and it’s common, but it makes determining whether nursing homes are siphoning away public Medicare and Medicaid dollars for private gain difficult.

A report released this summer by the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative and The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care found that the 16 Villa nursing homes in Michigan paid separate companies with the same owners $137.45 million between 2021 and 2023 while reporting a profit of just $19.7 million.

Villa officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment on its purchase of the Mission Point homes, but it appears to have retained only three.

Mission Point’s Flint facility is now Villa at Beecher Place. Its Superior Township home is Villa at Willow Place. Its Clarkston nursing home is now Villa at Pine Place.

The other four homes – in Warren, Beverly Hills, Clinton Township and Clawson - appear to be under the management of Cleveland-based Cerus Healthcare.

Cerus officials did not immediately respond to messages left seeking comment on the arrangement.