SOS Urges Dept. of Health to Reject Sakura ICF ‘Transition Plan’
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The following letter was sent on April 5 to Cassie Dunham, acting deputy director of the California Department of Public Health, by Taiji Miyagawa and David Emiliano Zapata Maldonado, Ph.D. on behalf of the Save Our Seniors Network Coordinating Committee.
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Save Our Seniors (SOS) Network writes in the strongest terms possible to object to the so-called “Transition Plan” (“Plan”) submitted Monday, March 29, 2021 by Sakura ICF Administrator Beverly Ito on behalf of its owners, the San Diego-based Pacifica Companies. Sakura ICF is the only facility of its type in California, providing unique community-based bilingual, bicultural care to Japanese-speaking frail elderly in Boyle Heights, near Los Angeles’ historic Little Tokyo.
Solis Urges Rejection of Sakura Gardens Transition Plan
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The Keiro Intermediate Care Facility became Sakura Gardens ICF when Pacifica acquired the Keiro facilities five years ago.
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis urged the California Department of Public Health on Wednesday to reject a proposal submitted by Sakura Gardens Intermediate Care Facility to close the facility and move its elderly residents.
The report, titled “Transition Plan,” was submitted on March 29 by Beverly Ito, Sakura Gardens administrator, on behalf of its owners, Pacifica Companies, with a proposed effective date of June 30, 2021. It states that as of March 23, 2021, Sakura Gardens would cease to accept new admissions.