Tag: Nursing Homes

• Covid-19 News | September 4, 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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• Covid-19 News | Issues | June 19, 2020

  ‘People over profits’: Visalia nursing home employees demand better working conditions

  Westgate Gardens Care Center employees on Thursday carried signs and chanted calls for hazard pay and better treatment during the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 outbreaks in local nursing homes have been one of the main drivers of Tulare County COVID-19 infections. Westgate...

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• Press Coverage | 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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• Covid-19 News | May 18, 2020

  Understaffing at nursing homes may be making coronavirus crisis worse: “It makes me mad and it makes me scared”

  Out of more than 89,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States, over 28,000 are connected to nursing homes, CBS News has confirmed. And a lack of staff at these facilities may have made the problem worse...

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• Covid-19 News | May 9, 2020

  Focus on nursing home workers amid continued virus outbreaks

  For nearly two months, many nursing homes nationwide have been on virtual lockdown.  Families of residents are not allowed inside, vendors have to drop deliveries outside and the only people coming in and out are health care workers and assistants. ...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 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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• Covid-19 News | Issues | May 2, 2020

  This nursing home had California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. ‘We weren’t prepared’

  The toll is grim at the Redwood Springs Healthcare Center in Visalia, site of California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak in a nursing home. As of Thursday, 115 residents had tested positive for COVID-19, 61 staff were infected and 26 residents were...

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• Covid-19 News | Issues | April 12, 2020

  Pillowcase masks and trash-bag gowns. The bleak, deadly reality in California nursing homes

  The masks are long gone, replaced by face covers fashioned from pillowcases. Cleaning supplies are dwindling. And when Maria Cecilia Lim, a licensed vocational nurse at an Orange County nursing home, needs a sterile gown, she reaches for a raincoat...

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• Press Coverage | 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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• Press Coverage | April 2, 2020

  COVID-19 Cluster In Yucaipa Is ‘Tip Of The Iceberg,’ Nursing Home Union Leader Says

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• Press Coverage | April 2, 2020

  Nursing Home Workers Union Pleads For More Protections

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