When it came to the need to house all those people, it quickly became apparent that jacksonville didnt have nearly enough hotel rooms to go around. Which should have been kind of a limiting factor for whether they were even in contention to get the super bowl at all, right . You cant house anybody who is coming to see the super bowl, then you cant host the super bowl. But, despite their dearth of hotel rooms, jacksonville really, really wanted to host the super bowl that year. And so, in order to address the housing concerns, jacksonville got creative. The stadium sits along the st. Johns river, and because jacksonville is the smallest city to ever host the big game, they have made up for a lack of hotel rooms with five cruise ships. Need a bed in town to watch the super bowl . Head on down to the docks. Weve got five, jumbosized cruise ships for you there. Thats what thousands of people ended up doing for housing during the super bowl in 2005. They rented rooms on cruise ships that we
doggone. reporter: a for-profit chain of more than two dozen california nursing homes, the cbs news investigation found in 2022 aspen facilities move to more than $25 million much of it medicare and medicaid reimbursements to companies related to aspen. ownership has become very complicated. reporter: last year the biden adminstration forced individual nursing homes to disclose more information about their owners, but harvard professor david grabowski told us that still does not explain where taxpayer money is flowing. does aspen have particular investors? there s no way to peel that back with the federal data. we need to know for every nursing home in the country how they are spending public dollars. reporter: research within the nursing home industry expecting profit through payment of inflated rents and management fee is two is widespread. so how did things change when aspen took over operations? for the most part i would say
Pressure continues to mount on for-profit nursing homes to increase the transparency of their finances amid increased oversight from regulators and government watchdogs in recent months.
Some nursing homes cry poverty while using complex financial arrangements to shield profits. How can California enforce new federal staffing requirements?