A leading public health official in Riverside, Calif., has filed a formal complaint with the state about a nursing home where 82 residents were evacuated when staff failed to report to work for 2 consecutive days.
Patients were evacuated from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, Calif., after staff failed to report to work.Patients were evacuated from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, Calif., after staff failed to report to work.In California, Riverside County's leading public health official, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, has filed a formal complaint with the state about a nursing home where 82 residents were evacuated earlier this month.
NPR obtained a copy of Dr. Kaiser's complaint. In it, he paints a picture of the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in a state of gradual collapse, beginning with staff members coming to work sick and culminating with 12 of 13 nursing assistants on one shift failing to show up for two days straight, resulting in the evacuation.county officials received a resource request on April 6 from the data entry nurse requesting 25 staff members to fill in for the absent workers.
Five staffers at the Southern California nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus, but it is unknown if that had anything to do with the dozen nursing assistants who didn't report for their shifts. Medicare rates nursing homes on a 5-star scale, measuring everything from staffing levels to kitchen hygiene. The Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center had a 2-star overall rating and received just 1 star for health inspections. Its 32 health citations in 2019 were about four-times the national average.
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