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California COVID-19 rules ease as emergency declarations end. Here’s what’s changed
1 year, 9 months ago

California COVID-19 rules ease as emergency declarations end. Here’s what’s changed

LA Times  

Shoppers, some wearing masks, make their way along Santee Alley in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 2022. “With the rescinding of many emergency orders these past weeks, there are questions about which sensible protections remain important to consider,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “Given the differing risks both by setting and by individual characteristics, the goals of …

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Hospitals complain problems persist a year after L.A. Care was hit with record fines
1 year, 9 months ago

Hospitals complain problems persist a year after L.A. Care was hit with record fines

LA Times  

A health insurance plan that serves poor and vulnerable patients in Los Angeles County was slapped with record fines — $55 million in total — last March for what a California state agency described as “widespread, systemic, and unrelenting” failures, including sluggish authorizations for medical care that left patients suffering. At MLK Community Hospital, patients had to spend roughly 600 …

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Facing Omicron threat, CDC says all adults should get COVID-19 booster vaccine
3 years, 1 month ago

Facing Omicron threat, CDC says all adults should get COVID-19 booster vaccine

LA Times  

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday strengthened its recommendations on who should get boosters. “Early data from South Africa suggest increased transmissibility of the Omicron variant.” The CDC‘s previous guidelines, last updated Nov. 19, recommended booster shots for adults 50 and older, and made all younger, healthier adults age 18 to 49 eligible for booster shots …

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Column: How did a home built for Japanese American seniors become the state’s deadliest nursing facility?
3 years, 10 months ago

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

LA Times  

A wave of coronavirus infections and deaths hit the Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center over the holidays. Wait lists at Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center, a Lincoln Heights skilled nursing facility that was originally designed around the cultural needs of the Japanese American community, could get long. We were told they were COVID-free and we could visit twice a week.” …

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Mutant coronavirus variants are a growing threat. Vaccinations, mask wearing are essential
3 years, 10 months ago

Mutant coronavirus variants are a growing threat. Vaccinations, mask wearing are essential

LA Times  

While emerging coronavirus variants remain a threat, health experts said they are hopeful that rising vaccination rates and continued wearing of masks can blunt the potential for a new wave. McDonald said that even if the California strain “is a little more contagious than the other ones that are circulating in the community, the take-home message is the same: that …

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Amid coronavirus crisis, L.A. County may create an inspector general to oversee nursing homes
4 years, 7 months ago

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

LA Times  

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.” …

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L.A. County coronavirus cases top 30,000 as some businesses reopen
4 years, 8 months ago

L.A. County coronavirus cases top 30,000 as some businesses reopen

LA Times  

As the number of new coronavirus-related deaths in Los Angeles County plateaued, officials Friday were easing into an economic recovery plan. “As these places reopen, we do need to remember the new normal,” Barbara Ferrer, the county’s public health director, said Friday. “Since on any given day, there’s an average of only 2,000 available beds in hospitals across L.A. County, …

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This nursing home had California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. ‘We weren’t prepared’
4 years, 8 months ago

This nursing home had California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. ‘We weren’t prepared’

LA Times  

The toll is grim at the Redwood Springs Healthcare Center in Visalia, site of California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak in a nursing home. “We lost control of the situation because we weren’t talking about it.” All three facilities share the same parent company: Plum Healthcare Group, a California entity that controls about 50 skilled nursing facilities in the state. “Nursing homes …

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L.A. County exceeds 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths
4 years, 8 months ago

L.A. County exceeds 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths

LA Times  

Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday announced 59 additional deaths linked to the coronavirus, sending the county’s toll past 1,000 and marking another dramatic increase in the number of daily deaths reported. 17 / 37 A specimen is turned in at the new mobile testing site for people with symptoms of the coronavirus at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine …

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Coronavirus is attacking nursing homes with poor infection track records in L.A. County
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus is attacking nursing homes with poor infection track records in L.A. County

LA Times  

A worker escorts a resident out of Beachwood Post-Acute & Rehab in Santa Monica, one of dozens of Los Angeles County skilled nursing facilities with coronavirus infections. “They also don’t have enough RNs to oversee the infection control.” Although infection control deficiencies are the most common violations for nursing homes, facilities that have struggled with the guidelines in the recent …

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