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

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