A Boston-based firm should be installed as the new independent health monitor at the nursing home formerly known as Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, according to court documents filed by the state attorney general’s office.

The recommendation comes more than nine months after an Albany-based consulting firm which has served as the health monitor at Woodbury Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center — the facility’s name under its new management — was purchased , in part, by a law firm representing some of the owners of the nursing home in its bankruptcy court proceeding.

Questions of independence

In a Sept. 19 filing in Nassau Supreme Court, Christina Pinnola, special assistant attorney general in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, asked Judge Lisa A. Cairo to remo

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