https://economichardship.org/2021/04/longest-80-miles-how-nursing-home-evictions-tear-families-apart NURSING HOMES ARE BUSINESSES, but they’re also meant to be homes where many people spend the last years of their lives, often with diminishing capacity. People who live in nursing homes are referred to as residents rather than patients. It’s this idea that’s at the heart of the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act, a … Read more
‘In many cases there were real lapses of oversight,’ says a director on GAO’s health care team Almost no nursing home in America was safe from COVID-19, federal study finds The Sakura Intermediate Care Facility in Boyle Heights has been kept 100% COVID-19 free. We are not yet out of the pandemic. There is no … Read more
Nursing homes across the country are kicking out old and disabled residents and sending them to homeless shelters and rundown motels. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/business/nursing-homes-evictions-discharges-coronavirus.html SOS Network comment: The fight to help residents of Sakura ICF to stay in their homes is part of a nationwide fight to defend senior rights, but it is exacerbated by the discriminatory … Read more