Long-term care providers in California could be subject to more visits from inspectors as the state ponders changes to its nursing home inspection system.
The California Department of Public Health is considering a draft plan that calls for inspectors to visit each of the stateâs 1,100 nursing homes multiple times per month to advise, educate and offer support in a push to improve quality of care, KPBS reported Wednesday.
The overhaul would be a change from the usual annual checks from inspectors that providers are currently subject to. Proponents for the change believe the update would produce a more collaborative and less punitive survey process.
This story is part of Lost on the Frontline, a project from The Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who die from COVID-19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.
CORONA, Calif. Antonio Espinoza loved the Los Angeles Dodgers. He loved them so much that he was laid to rest in his favorite Dodgers jersey. His family and friends, including his 3-year-old son, donned a sea of blue-and-white baseball shirts and caps in his honor.
Espinoza died at age 36 of COVID-19, just days after he got his first dose of a COVID vaccine. He was a hospice nurse who put his life in danger to help COVID patients and others have a peaceful death.