By Medi-Cal Notice • SB 69 (Mello) requires nursing homes to provide every resident or applicant and their representative a notice of spousal impoverishment and Medi-Cal rights. Effective January 1, 1988. Transfer Trauma • AB 2196 (Friedman) establishes policies to reduce transfer trauma when nursing home residents are being transferred to another facility. These policies must include a medical assessment of the patient’s condition, counseling services, evaluation of relocation needs, 30 day advance notice, and appropriate arrangements for future medical care.
Column: How did a home built for Japanese American seniors become the state’s deadliest nursing facility?
This article is related to AB 279 (Muratsuchi), sponsored by CANHR. By Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, March 1 2021 A wave of coronavirus infections and deaths hit the Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center over the holidays. It has recorded at least 97 COVID-19 deaths. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Tracy and her family agonized over moving her grandmother from the nursing facility in Boyle Heights where she had lived comfortably for four years, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
1984-1987
Receivership Reform • SB 1220 (Mello) expands the powers and duties of a receiver when a nursing home is in receivership; disallows certain debts. Effective January 1, 1987. Responsible Parties • AB 3943 (Agnos) prohibits nursing homes from requiring a responsible party to sign the admission agreement as a condition of admission. Effective January 1, 1987.
Sakura Gardens retirement home, a last vestige of Japanese American Boyle Heights, faces partial closure
This article is related to AB 279 (Muratsuchi), sponsored by CANHR. By Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2021 Laura Morita Bethel directs traffic during a protest at the Sakura Gardens intermediate care facility.(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Kotoko Toji has lived in Los Angeles since the 1950s but speaks little English. When it came time to move to a retirement home 15 years ago, she had a request: Sakura Gardens.
What you need to know if you or a loved one requires end-of-life care
This article is related to SB 664, Supported by CANHR. By Ben Poston, Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times, December 9 2020 An office building on Victory Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley is home to several hospice providers.(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Conceived as an end-of-life option for terminally ill patients, hospices provide palliative care, medications, nursing services and counseling for those diagnosed with six months or less to live.
Dying Californians suffer harm and neglect from an industry meant to comfort them
This article is related to SB 664, Supported by CANHR. By Kim Christensen and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, March 9 2021 A well-worn office building on Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys is home to more than a dozen hospice providers. Los Angeles County hospices have multiplied sixfold in the last decade and now account for more than half of the state’s roughly 1,200 Medicare-certified providers.
End-of-life care has boomed in California. So has fraud targeting older Americans
This article is related to SB 664, Supported by CANHR. Ellie Craig Goldstein holds a pouch containing sentimental items from her brother, Peter Craig. Three years after Peter’s death, his sisters Ellie and Joyce Craig are haunted by the memory of his final hours. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) By Kim Christensen, Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, December 9 2020 Martin Huff was 67 when he fell off his bicycle, banged up his knee and spent a couple of hours in a Riverside County emergency room before walking out under his own power.