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In some nursing homes, elderly victims were found abandoned in their beds by Spanish soldiers mounting emergency response. Defense minister Margarita Robles said anyone guilty of neglect will be prosecuted. [32] By 18 April 38 residences were under investigation. [31] Some hospitals refused to admit sick people from nursing homes. [33]
Workforce capacity in nursing homes, already in decline before COVID-19, was further exacerbated by the pandemic, according to the 2023 "National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report" from ...
On March 10, 2020, a resident of a retirement home tested positive in Elk Grove in Sacramento County. County health officials said that they had the capacity to only test 20 people per day and would be focusing all their efforts on the other residents of the retirement home. That resident died from complications of the virus on the same day.
A study published in February 2024 by the JAMA Health Forum indicates the nursing workforce recovered in 2022 and 2023 following a substantial drop during the COVID-19 pandemic. It further ...
“However, since the pandemic, the median home price in Austin has skyrocketed by 38.9% from 2020 to 2022, making it far less affordable for retirees.” Zillow reported that the average home ...
California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
Those facilities argue that they have immunity from such suits under a federal law invoked during the pandemic. Grieving relatives sue facilities over COVID-19 deaths. Nursing homes say they're immune
The COVID-19 pandemic in California began earlier than in some other parts of the United States. Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California , and the first infection was confirmed on January 26, 2020.