Laguna Honda Hospital Has 60 Days to Move Over 600 Patients Before It Shuts Down. It’s Only Placed 48 So Far.

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Laguna Honda Hospital opened up in 1866 to care for the city’s poor and indigent. Now over 150 years later, federal officials have threatened to shut the hospital, which operates as a skilled nursing facility, because of failed inspections prompted by two nonfatal drug overdoses that occurred onsite. In order to be recertified to operate, Laguna Honda must move out over 600 of its residents and has until September 13 to make that happen. So far, they have only moved 48 patients. What happened to the hospital and how will these patients be taken care of? We’ll discuss the ongoing situation at Laguna Honda and talk about what this situation says about how we care for our most vulnerable friends and neighbors. Guests: Sydney Johnson, public health reporter, San Francisco Examiner. Tony Chicotel, Staff Attorney, California Advocates For Nursing Home Reform. Jessica Lehman, executive director, Senior & Disability Action. Roland Pickens, director of the San Francisco Health Network, a network of 13 clinics in SF, interim CEO of Laguna Honda Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	A tragedy is unfolding in San Francisco.
0:52.3	Laguna Honda Hospital, home to hundreds of the most marginalized people in the city,
0:56.5	may have to close its doors.
0:58.8	The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services investigated the nursing facility after two
1:03.1	patients overdosed and decided that it did not meet their standards.
1:07.7	The payments that federal agency makes represent the vast majority of its budget,
1:12.7	so now the facility is fighting for its existence. Losing Laguna Honda would do huge damage to San
1:17.6	Francisco, but it also can't keep operating the way it has, as its own physicians and others have
1:23.1	been warning for years about mismanagement at the facility. We'll try to get some answers to this very
1:28.3	bad situation after this news.
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