EXHIBIT C

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

                           Statements on Schedule 13D


      The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Kym Irvin and Donald J.
McNamara, and each of them, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
to sign on the undersigned's behalf any or all Statements on Schedule 13D, and
any or all amendments thereto, relating to the capital stock of Omega Healthcare
Investors, Inc., and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact or
agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
promises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or
agents, or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.

      Dated as of January 22, 2002.

                                     /s/ Daniel A. Decker
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                                         Daniel A. Decker