2/1/23

Spearditch company blames Republican Montana governor for nursing home closures

Wendy Soulek is chief operating officer for and heir to Lantis Enterprises—a Spearditch, South Dakota company operating some 21 long term care centers, 6 Alzheimer's Units, 14 personal care/assisted living centers, and 5 home health agencies including facilities in Montana. 

Because of Republican cuts to Medicaid reimbursements ten long term care properties closed in Montana last year and in October Lantis shut their fifth home including the Friendship Villa in Miles City and Rocky Mountain Care Center in Helena. Lantis shuttered the Glacier Care Center in Cut Bank yesterday and closed Beartooth Manor in Columbus on January 7.
“I’m so floored that Montana has chosen this path. The governor ... (expects people) will move to more populated areas, but their families can’t. That’s the most heart-wrenching and cruel part of this whole thing,” Soulek said. “They can’t just let rural communities go down like this.” [Columbus nursing home closing, making 10 Montana facilities closed in 2022]
After Amtrak's Empire Builder derailed near Joplin, Montana in 2021 many of the injured passengers were unable to find medical care because area hospitals were overwhelmed with unvaccinated Republicans.

Wendy Soulek's father Will Lantis was a Republican politician who died drunk at the wheel in 2006 in a single vehicle crash near Spearditch.

ip photo: a 2011 rally at the Montana Capitol drew 600 people.
 
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