Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In early April, state inspectors completed a survey of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside as part of a federal effort to make sure nursing homes were protecting elderly residents from the coronavirus.Their one-page report concluded: “No deficiencies.”The next day, April 8, a fleet of ambulances lined up outside Magnolia to after the staff refused to show up for work, terrified of the deadly infection already spreading within the facility.Similar scenarios played out across California this spring, survey records...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In early April, state inspectors completed a survey of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside as part of a federal effort to make sure nursing homes were protecting elderly residents from the coronavirus.Their one-page report concluded: “No deficiencies.”The next day, April 8, a fleet of ambulances lined up outside Magnolia to after the staff refused to show up for work, terrified of the deadly infection already spreading within the facility.Similar scenarios played out across California this spring, survey records...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Nearly half of all deaths related to COVID-19 in California are linked to elder care facilities, a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times has found, with the state releasing new data suggesting that there have been many more outbreaks than previously disclosed. At least 1,276 people have died after being infected with the coronavirus in skilled nursing or assisted living facilities in California, accounting for more than 49% of total fatalities reported by the state. The deaths are part of state data showing that at least 387 skilled...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Nearly half of all deaths related to COVID-19 in California are linked to elder care facilities, a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times has found, with the state releasing new data suggesting that there have been many more outbreaks than previously disclosed. At least 1,276 people have died after being infected with the coronavirus in skilled nursing or assisted living facilities in California, accounting for more than 49% of total fatalities reported by the state. The deaths are part of state data showing that at least 387 skilled...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As coronavirus continues its destructive spread through nursing homes, Brier Oak on Sunset, a low-slung brick building next to a pizza parlor in Hollywood has earned a sad distinction -- it has reported nearly twice as many cases as the next biggest outbreak in Los Angeles County.But that’s at least in part because , an aggressive step public health officials were not recommending and few other homes were willing to take. That is about to change, and the number of reported COVID-19 cases at nursing homes is expected to rise sharply...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As coronavirus continues its destructive spread through nursing homes, Brier Oak on Sunset, a low-slung brick building next to a pizza parlor in Hollywood has earned a sad distinction -- it has reported nearly twice as many cases as the next biggest outbreak in Los Angeles County.But that’s at least in part because , an aggressive step public health officials were not recommending and few other homes were willing to take. That is about to change, and the number of reported COVID-19 cases at nursing homes is expected to rise sharply...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement It is a tragedy unfolding in real time. At a skilled nursing facility in the Tulare County town of Visalia, 71 residents and 41 staffers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Six residents at the 176-bed Redwood Springs Healthcare Center are dead and eight are in acute care, according to Anita Hubbard, the center’s administrator.But without Hubbard’s details, little would be known about one of California’s worst outbreaks of the deadly virus in a senior facility. Tulare County stopped commenting for five days, during which...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement It is a tragedy unfolding in real time. At a skilled nursing facility in the Tulare County town of Visalia, 71 residents and 41 staffers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Six residents at the 176-bed Redwood Springs Healthcare Center are dead and eight are in acute care, according to Anita Hubbard, the center’s administrator.But without Hubbard’s details, little would be known about one of California’s worst outbreaks of the deadly virus in a senior facility. Tulare County stopped commenting for five days, during which...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As public health officials scramble to clear a backlog of unused COVID-19 vaccine by opening the process to anyone 65 or older, new data show they failed to quickly deliver shots to the vast majority of California’s most vulnerable residents, who were supposed to be the priority. As of Sunday, only about 5% of long-term care facility residents in the statewide vaccination program — including people in skilled nursing homes and assisted living centers — had been vaccinated, according to California Department of Public Health data...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As public health officials scramble to clear a backlog of unused COVID-19 vaccine by opening the process to anyone 65 or older, new data show they failed to quickly deliver shots to the vast majority of California’s most vulnerable residents, who were supposed to be the priority. As of Sunday, only about 5% of long-term care facility residents in the statewide vaccination program — including people in skilled nursing homes and assisted living centers — had been vaccinated, according to California Department of Public Health data...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health...WW…

Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementWith a new stay-at-home order set to go into effect across much of California late Sunday, hard-hit Los Angeles County reached another alarming milestone in the coronavirus surge, surpassing 10,000 new daily cases.The county reported 10,528 new cases Sunday and 23 additional deaths. Hospitalizations also reached a new high, with 2,988 patients.L.A. County has seen an unprecedented increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, filling hospitals. Sunday’s numbers underscore concerns that the region has not yet hit its peak.“I am...…Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementWith a new stay-at-home order set to go into effect across much of California late Sunday, hard-hit Los Angeles County reached another alarming milestone in the coronavirus surge, surpassing 10,000 new daily cases.The county reported 10,528 new cases Sunday and 23 additional deaths. Hospitalizations also reached a new high, with 2,988 patients.L.A. County has seen an unprecedented increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, filling hospitals. Sunday’s numbers underscore concerns that the region has not yet hit its peak.“I am...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Isabel Lainez was a familiar face at when she showed up one day desperately seeking help.The 60-year-old often visited the hospital’s courtyard pulling a wheelie bag filled with jewelry that she sold to nurses and other workers on their lunch breaks. Now she was struggling with frequent urinary tract infections that had stopped responding to antibiotics.She wet herself so frequently — on the bus, in the car, in an elevator — that she started wearing diapers and stopped going out to sell jewelry or visit friends.A referral to a urologist dragged on...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Isabel Lainez was a familiar face at when she showed up one day desperately seeking help.The 60-year-old often visited the hospital’s courtyard pulling a wheelie bag filled with jewelry that she sold to nurses and other workers on their lunch breaks. Now she was struggling with frequent urinary tract infections that had stopped responding to antibiotics.She wet herself so frequently — on the bus, in the car, in an elevator — that she started wearing diapers and stopped going out to sell jewelry or visit friends.A referral to a urologist dragged on...WW…