WW 8-9-22 SF Laguna Honda Hospital Discharges & The Deaths With Pat McGinnis Of CANHR by WorkWeek Radio

The City of San Francisco has been discharging patients and residents from Laguna Honda Hospital and Convalescent Hospital after the Federal and State government charged that the facility with 700 beds was not following the health and safety standards and must be closed. This has led to the death of 9 of the patients who were improperly discharged to nursery homes and even homeless shelters. Many of these patients are in fragile condition and in their 80's and 90's.
Pat McGinnis who is with the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR). She discusses the causes of this catastrophic condition and why the system is not protecting these patients at Laguna Honda and throughout the state.
McGinnis reports that the State Department of Public Health is a "provider protection agency" for the billion dollar corporations that really run the industry and have captured the state agencies that are supposedly in charge of over-sight.
The City has also pushed to reduce the beds by 120 from the present 700 which would further limit the resources for the injured and elderly who need these public services and are on SSI or Medi-Cal. During the covid pandemic 10,000 nursing home residents have died due to the lack of health and safety and PPE as well as failure to protect the workers.
This interview as done on 8/9/22
For further info:
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR)
www.canhr.org
WW 8-4-22 Fight To Save SF Laguna Honda & SEIU 1021 SF Tenderloin Housing Clinic Workers
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww-8-4-22-fight-to-save-sf-laguna-honda-seiu-1021-sf-tenderloin-housing-clinic-workers
Joint Oversight Hearing Assembly Committee on Health and Assembly Committee on Aging and Long Term Care
http://www.canhr.org/newsroom/newdev_archive/2015/McGinnis-testimony-DPH-March2015.pdf
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