"I don't believe the Health Department is living up to its mission to protect the health and safety of New Yorkers if they permit the operators of low-performing and dangerous nursing homes to acquire even more facilities," said Mary Brennan-Taylor, a local patient safety advocate who lectures at the University at Buffalo, D’Youville College and Niagara University. "If a nursing home is not where the governor would want to have his mother go and live her final years, unsuspecting families should not have to entrust their loved ones at those facilities.”