Amid coronavirus crisis, L.A. County may create an inspector general to oversee nursing homes

Los Angeles County officials will consider on Tuesday whether to appoint an inspector general to oversee nursing homes, a new position that would bring “much-needed accountability” to the epicenter of the county’s COVID-19 crisis, according to a motion filed this week. There is a question whether or not profit motive drives the substandard conditions experienced in some of these facilities.” Read the motion to create an inspector general for nursing homes here The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will discuss the motion by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Kathryn Barger at their Tuesday meeting. But in L.A. County, the state agency has historically shared the oversight responsibility of about 2,500 health facilities, including 400 nursing homes, with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. California As coronavirus deaths mount, L.A. County is far behind on promise to test everyone in nursing homes A month after vowing to test all nursing home residents and staff for the novel coronavirus, Los Angeles County health officials have completed the effort in only about a third of homes and have dramatically scaled back testing plans.