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 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…