---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000731012-21-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HCSG"
cik: "0000731012"
company_name: "HEALTHCARE SERVICES GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T08:14:46.904048+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Healthcare Services Group settles SEC EPS probe for $6M; CFO Shea shifts to CAO role

## Summary
- Agreed to pay $6.0M civil penalty to SEC for EPS calculation errors from 2014-2017; neither admitted nor denied charges.
- John Shea, CFO since 2012, becomes Chief Administrative Officer effective Sept 1, 2021.
- Andrew Brophy, formerly Acting Principal Accounting Officer, continues as Principal Accounting Officer; no new CFO named.
- Company states it cooperated with SEC and is 'pleased to put this matter behind us.'

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000731012-21-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HCSG
- cik: 0000731012
- company_name: HEALTHCARE SERVICES GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731012/000073101221000071/0000731012-21-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731012/000073101221000071/hcsg-20210824.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000731012-21-000071
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000731012-21-000071.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000731012-21-000071.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John C. Shea was appointed as Chief Administrative Officer at HEALTHCARE SERVICES GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Administrative Officer
  source text: John C. Shea, who had served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since 2012, has been appointed Chief Administrative Officer and will transition to that role effective September 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731012/000073101221000071/0000731012-21-000071-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.