Before revision: 2011 Miami Herald investigation A 2011 investigation by the Miami Herald into assisted living facilities in Florida won the Pulitzer Prize, and found that: "The safeguards once hailed as the most progressive in the nation have been ignored in a string of tragedies never before revealed to the public, " " that the Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the state's 2,850 assisted-living facilities, has failed to monitor shoddy operators, investigate dangerous practices or shut down the worst offenders," and " as the ranks of assisted-living facilities grew to make room for Florida's booming elderly population, the state failed to protect the people it was meant to serve."
After revision: 2011 Miami Herald investigation A 2011 investigation by the Miami Herald into assisted living facilities in Florida won the Pulitzer Prize, and found That: "The safeguards once hailed As... the most progressive in the nation have been ignored in a string of tragedies never before revealed to the public, " " that the Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the state's 2,850 assisted-living facilities, has failed to monitor shoddy operators, investigate dangerous practices or shut down the worst offenders," and " as the ranks of assisted-living facilities grew to make room for Florida's booming elderly population, the state failed to protect the people it was meant to serve."