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Community rejects development plans at Sakura Intermediate Care Facility

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https://boyleheightsbeat.com/community-rejects-development-plans-at-sakura-intermediate-care-facility Albert Serna Jr. April 30, 2021 Boyle Heights In Focus, Health, Seniors 60 For nearly eight years, Ken Nakayama’s mother Tomiko, who is 93, has been living at Sakura Intermedate Care Facility in Boyle Heights along other Japanese and Japanese American elders. It is a unique facility, Nakayama said, that not only cares for … Read more

Opinion: These Japanese American seniors may be displaced in L.A. during the pandemic. It’s unconscionable.

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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/boyleheights An opinion piece by actors Tamlyn Tomita and Lane Nishikawa and activist Carlos Montes in the San Diego Union. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacifica Senior Living’s plans to turn Sakura Gardens ICF into a 45-unit luxury apartment building put the lives of 200 of its most vulnerable and cherished Japanese-American community … Read more

LA Times Column: How did a home built for Japanese American seniors become the state’s deadliest nursing facility?

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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

Watchdog calls for LA County nursing home crisis plan in light of ‘serious’ deficiencies, gaps

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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