As the population ages, more Americans are faced with some very tough choices. How to find the best quality care for our loved ones. Here in California that task is especially daunting, given the difficulties of figuring out just who owns which nursing homes.

It's a subject reporter Phillip Reese has been looking into for the Sacramento Bee. He and his colleagues analyzed thousands of federal and state records about the ownership of the state's 1,260 nursing homes. Phillip Reese joins us now on the line.