The central role played by the governor’s top aides reflected the lengths to which Mr. Cuomo has gone in the middle of a deadly pandemic to control data, brush aside public health expertise and bolster his position as a national leader in the fight against the coronavirus. As the nursing home report was being written, … Read more
By FRANK SHYONG, COLUMNIST MARCH 1, 2021 5 AM PT https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-01/hospital-transfers-spark-covid-surge-la-nursing-homes Relieving overtaxed hospitals and their exhausted staff is essential. But this policy has allowed for-profit companies that run many nursing homes to volunteer their residents for the increased viral risk — and profit — that the transfers represent. Patients and doctors say they were never informed or … Read more
February 23, 2021 Julia Rock and David Sirota https://portside.org/2021-02-23/how-wall-street-killed-grandma “20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data.“ “We find that [private equity] ownership leads to a 3 percent decline in hours per patient-day supplied by the frontline nursing assistants … Read more
A reform advocate says the county Health Facilities Inspection Division ‘has not been up to the job of overseeing and monitoring nursing homes in L.A.’ Will there need to be an emergency evacuation at the Kei-Ai Los Angeles facility as well? The CA DPH COVID-19 dashboard shows that the death rates continue to rise like … Read more
L.A. Public Health Ok’d Release of COVID Patients to Nursing Homes With Many Coronavirus Deaths, Poor Ratings The agency also scrubbed statistics on coronavirus deaths and cases at designated nursing homes from its website. Published on June 18, 2020, By Danny Feingold https://capitalandmain.com/los-angeles-public-health-dept-approved-covid-transfers-to-poorly-rated-nursing-homes-0618 As part of California’s controversial practice of discharging COVID-19 patients from acute-care … Read more
By Los Angeles Times Staff Updated Feb. 14 9:23 a.m. Pacific https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/nursing-homes/ Clearly, California is not doing a very good job at protecting seniors in nursing homes. Regarding Pacifica Companies, they are doing among the worst of all. This includes the Kei-Ai facility in Lincoln Heights and the Kei-Ai facility in South Bay. Please help SOS appeal … Read more
SOS points out that the Kei-Ai LA situation is related to this NY Times piece. The privatized Skilled Nursing Facility system is also flawed as it is guided by profit interests ahead of patient interests. COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated inequality inherent in the healthcare system. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/covid-los-angeles.html
Save Our Seniors (SOS) calls for an immediate cease of transfers/moves/evictions of residents from all former Keiro Nursing and Retirement Homes facilities during the pandemic. Pacifica Companies needs to demonstrate more transparency as to why the COVID-19 numbers at the Kei-Ai facilities are so high in Lincoln Heights and Gardena. Between the two Kei-Ai Facilities, … Read more