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New ICF Eviction Fight Readied
Obon dancers form a circle at the Kansha Obon held on Saturday at Rissho Kosei Kai in Boyle Heights.
By ELLEN ENDO,
Rafu Shimpo
Despite a looming eviction deadline for Sakura Gardens Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) seniors, supporters are preparing for a new round of challenges, it was learned during Saturday’s Kansha (Gratitude) Obon.
Rev. Ray Fukumoto
Mike Dark, staff attorney for the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), outlined a plan of action to fight the evictions. “Sakura is not a facility, it’s a neighborhood. It’s a community, and a community is always worth fighting for,” he said, pointing out that “although July 20 has been set as the date for closure by Pacifica, that date will not stick because the people here have the power to prevent it.”
Nursing Home Workers Died of COVID, Failed to Tell Watchdogs
California’s health department regularly updates a list of COVID infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only half of listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have reported the death to Cal/OSHA. by Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee / February 18, 2021 TNS
(TNS) - Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have bothered to report the death to Cal/ OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.
California nursing home workers died of COVID. The industry failed to tell state watchdogs
Sacramento Bee 2/18/2021 Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog still doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities have bothered to report the death to Cal/OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.