Laguna Honda’s COVID-19 Outbreak Offers Lessons for Other Long-Term Care Homes This week San Francisco health officials have begun testing everyone at skilled nursing facilities for COVID-19, beginning with the county-run Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, where an early outbreak has amassed 21 cases of the virus among patients and staff. It could have … Read more
Census Bureau predicts milestone will be hit within 17 years By Paul Overberg and Janet Adamy | Updated March 13, 2018 9:13 pm ET People over 65 years old would outnumber children by 2035, a first in U.S. history, according to updated projections released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday. The milestone would be the … 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
Click: January 6, 2021, Los Angeles Times, Andrew Campa, staff writer