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Sakura ICF Transition Plan Rejected by Dept. of Public Health
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Speakers at a Save Our Seniors press conference held outside Sakura ICF in February included Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de Leon (left) and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (right). (J.K. YAMAMOTO/Rafu Shimpo)
A plan submitted by Pacifica Companies to the California Department of Public Health to allow for the transfer of residents from Sakura Intermediate Care Facility in Boyle Heights has been rejected, pending further amendments recommended by public health authorities.
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.
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Save Our Seniors Rally to Be Held Outside Kei-Ai Nursing Home
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Save Our Seniors held a car rally outside Sakura Gardens in Boyle Heights last month. (MARIO GERSHOM REYES/Rafu Shimpo)
Save Our Seniors is planning to hold a program and car rally outside Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center (formerly Keiro Nursing Home), 2221 Lincoln Park Ave., Los Angeles, on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 11 a.m.
Organizers are asking Pacifica not to move residents from the Sakura (formerly Keiro) Intermediate Care Facility in Boyle Heights to the Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center in Lincoln Heights.
SOS is making the following demands:
Kotoko Toji has lived in Los Angeles since the 1950s but speaks little English.
When it came time to move to a retirement home 15 years ago, she had a request: Sakura Gardens.
Like Toji, many of the residents are Japanese Americans in their 80s and 90s. Most of the staff speaks Japanese.
On the Japanese holiday of Girls’ Day, Toji and her friends eat sakuramochi a sweet rice cake filled with red bean paste and encased in a pickled cherry blossom leaf.
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Sakura Gardens is a last vestige of Japanese American culture in Boyle Heights.
Since the facility opened in the 1970s, most businesses catering to Japanese residents have closed as the neighborhood solidified into a working-class Latino enclave.