Nursing Home Covid Death Toll Prompts Calls for Changes to Licensing, Inspections, Quality of Care

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Of the many Californians who died of COVID , 1 in 8 lived in a nursing home, totaling almost 9400 people. The high death toll is now prompting legislators to rethink oversight and funding of these institutions. We’ll talk about how the pandemic has exposed systemic problems with the quality of care in nursing homes and what a proposed state budget reform linking nursing home funding to new quality standards, might mean for the approximately 400,000 state nursing home residents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.4	Of the many Californians who died of COVID, 1 and 8 lived in a nursing home.
0:58.7	Nearly 10,000 nursing home residents have been killed by the disease in our state alone. The pandemic exposed systemic problems with the quality of care our elders receive and is
1:03.6	prompting legislators to rethink the oversight and funding of these institutions.
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