Category: Press Coverage

• CapitalAndMain.com | June 15, 2020

  Death Trap: When COVID-19 Hit L.A. Nursing Homes, Where Was the County’s Department of Public Health?

  

  John is one of the lucky ones. That is, if good fortune can be ascribed to someone living at a nursing home where 83 residents and 30 staff have contracted COVID-19 – and 19 have died from the disease. The 66-year-old...

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• The New York Times | June 6, 2020

  Navigating Home Care During the Pandemic
• Capital and Main | June 4, 2020

  Caregivers See Threats from COVID-19 and Budget Cuts

  

  As California reopens, essential home care workers may have their hours cut. For workers who provide in-home care for disabled and elderly individuals, reopening the economy is a risky proposition. As a low-paid workforce, they are particularly vulnerable to both exploitation and infection....

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• La Opinión | May 28, 2020

  Coronavirus pone a trabajadores de asilos al filo de la navaja

  

  Aman su trabajo esencial, pero al mismo tiempo han sido de los más impactados por la pandemia. Roberta Rodríguez, una enfermera asistente que se contagió de coronavirus en un asilo de la ciudad de Santa Ana donde trabaja, pasó noches...

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• Daily News | May 3, 2020

  ‘It’s been a nightmare.’ Inside Chatsworth nursing home’s struggle to contain its coronavirus outbreak

  

  The 132-bed Stoney Point Healthcare Center has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. For several days, Lisa Cook had no communication with her 62-year-old husband, who was confined to Chatsworth’s Stoney Point nursing home after a stroke left him...

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• Essence.com | May 1, 2020

  Afraid For Their Health And Lacking PPE, Black Homecare Workers Feel Left Behind In The COVID Pandemic

  

  ESSENCE spoke to members of SEIU Local 2015 about the challenges they’ve faced at work and at home in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Jennifer Washington acknowledges being scared at first, not knowing what to expect when COVID-19, the...

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• KQED | April 23, 2020

  April Verrett on Leading the Nursing Home Workers at the Center of the Coronavirus Pandemic

  

  With outbreaks of COVID-19 at skilled nursing facilities around the state, April Verrett, President of SEIU 2015, talks to Marisa and Scott about the members she represents and efforts to protect them at their job. She also discusses her childhood...

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• LA Times | April 18, 2020

  California names nursing homes with coronavirus outbreaks, number of cases

  For the first time, California Department of Public Health officials have divulged the names of nursing homes across the state with COVID-19 outbreaks and the number of cases at each facility. Among the hardest-hit facilities are the Brier Oak on Sunset nursing...

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• Cheddar.com | April 9, 2020

  Largest Long-term Care Union Raising Awareness Ahead of Labor Day

  

  The nation's largest long term care union SEIU Local 2015 is raising awareness about the rights of frontline workers with labor day just around the corner. Arnulfo De La Cruz, Executive Vice President of SEIU Local 2015, joined Cheddar to...

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• ABC News | April 2, 2020

  Union demands protection for nursing home staff amid coronavirus pandemic

  The union for 400,000 long–term care workers issued a plea for federal help on Wednesday to better protect the health care aides who they say are facing extreme risks as novel coronavirus has spread in dozens of nursing homes and assisted living facilities across the nation....

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• Sacramento Bee | April 2, 2020

  ‘Please, please, please step up:’ Union, employer make joint appeal to Trump on face masks

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