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.