Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

May 21, 2001

S-8: Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

Published on May 21, 2001


EXHIBIT 23(b)


CONSENT OF ERNST & YOUNG, LLP


We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 pertaining to the Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. 2000
Stock Incentive Plan of our report dated March 16, 2001, except for the third
and seventh paragraphs of Note 15, as to which the date is March 30, 2001, with
respect to the consolidated financial statements of Omega Healthcare Investors,
Inc. included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2000 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.



ERNST & YOUNG, LLP

Chicago, Illinois
May 21, 2001