Fatal Fire Presents China's Private Nursing Homes with Host of Problems

(Beijing) – Businesswoman Chen Lude says she feels like she dodged a bullet when she decided not to send her mother to a nursing home that was later hit by a deadly fire. In early May, Chen and her siblings decided to send their 80-year-old mother to the privately owned Kangleyuan Elderly Rehabilitation Center, one of the best-known homes for the elderly in Lushan County, in the central province of Henan.