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The California Department of Public Health decided last year that controversial nursing home owner Crystal Solorzano was unfit to hold licenses at nine nursing homes she sought to take over. Solorzano appealed the decision, and the state was set to hold a hearing until Solorzano withdrew her appeals at the last minute, earlier this month.
Despite the move, Solorzano who the California Department of Public Health
“It’s a bad day for patients,” said Tony Chicotel, a staff attorney for the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, referring to the prospect that ReNew Health could continue to be involved with those facilities. “It s been a horrible year-and-a-half for nursing home residents. And this is just sort of kicking more sand into their face.”
At a nursing home in Glendale, a certified nursing assistant was charged with raping a mentally ill patient in her room. After the incident, according to investigators, the victim said she felt scared, sad, wanted to kill herself.
At a facility in Simi Valley, the daughter of one elderly resident told LAist that staff didn t adequately care for her mother, who developed a gruesome bedsore. I could stick my pinky in it, she said. It was down to the bone.
At a nursing home in Compton, a schizophrenic patient with one leg was inappropriately discharged. He went missing, only to turn up two weeks later in a park, unconscious, under his wheelchair. Regulators charged that the facility s lapses presented imminent danger or a substantial probability that if the man hadn t been found, he would have suffered grave harm, even death.