Eight years after a private company took over a Los Angeles-area nursing home that had been run by a Japanese nonprofit, 115 patients died of COVID. Local members of the Japanese community, who had opposed the sale, pointed to the deaths and scores of earlier complaints as evidence of a sharp decline in care. With support from the Fund, AsAmNews, published by the nonprofit Asian American Media, dug into the history of complaints and the COVID deaths and interviewed community members with loved ones in the nursing home. The outlet found that state, county and federal oversight agencies have failed to investigate complaints and apparent patterns of substandard care.
Grantee tracks declining care at for-profit nursing homes serving Japanese community in Los Angeles
