Jan 14, 2021
HONOLULU (AP) A Hawaii island veterans home that suffered a coronavirus outbreak resulting in several patient deaths is under new management.
The Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo will be operated by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation under the management of Administrator Kau’i Chartrand, Hawaii Public Radio reported Monday.
An August COVID-19 outbreak at Yukio Okutsu infected 35 staff and 71 residents, including 27 who died.
The state-owned health care organization took over the home in an agreement resulting in Utah-based Avalon Health Care relinquishing control of the facility, which the company had run since it opened in 2007.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave the home a health inspection rating of one star out of five.