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I cried every single day going home i cried before i even got to the house and my son wouldnt see me i dont want to see i have so much wood im pretty sure he felt in the early months of the pen demick Jessica Duran worked as a housekeeper at a nursing home in california it had one of the worst coded 1000 breaks in the area i had to go out in quarantine in my brothers garage. And hear her because i heard my son on the other side of the door. Say i just want to sleep with you are just you know hug but i couldnt. I couldnt do that all i can just text im up here right here i love you ill be ok youll be ok and. Thats the thing that scared me the most is i was going to bring something into my family. When the pandemic hit the us Nursing Homes became ground 0 for the virus as of october more than 55000 nursing home residents have died we have a tradition of very poor Infection Control in these facilities and i think what it comes down to is we dont trade older folks the way we treat others we dont value their lives as much thats thats been evidenced in the pandemic in california nearly 150 nursing home workers have died jessica was afraid she would bring the virus home to her young son who suffers from asthma so she quit in may but still thinks about the elderly residents she left behind i was still dream about them. Yeah some of them just screaming and then there some of them down walking down the hall state house. And some of you like i just want water and until this day i even asked i wonder if theyre still there. California was one of the states hardest hit by the corona virus and nearly a 3rd of its death toll came from Nursing Homes. Fault lines investigates how an already troubled Nursing Home Industry imploded under the weight of the pandemic i think it says that in many instances we put profit of book patient care. But isnt that the american way. Bakersfield is a city in the heart of californias Central Valley when we went there in mid august it was one of the worst coronavirus hot spots in the country. According to the California Department of Public Health there have been multiple deaths due to cope and 19 at the Kingston Health care center here in bakersfield in early may nearly half of the cases here came from the nursing home where jessica worked Kingston Health care center 9 residents of the facility have died so far making up for 60 percent of the total couvade 19 deaths in the county. Had been a resident at kingston for nearly 20 years he was very stubborn and he had roles for us all the time. But he was a good man he was good to us he provided the farm labor on his life he started having mini strokes. I just got worse every. Day for a year and a half and then eventually i had a bit of a home. Minerva and her daughter and jellicoe would visit gonzalo every day until the lockdown in march purana virus came around and i couldnt visit so we did face time but every single day that i was saying to him he was either a mrs gowan laying in bed all day long sometimes i found him dirty. And i just broke my heart to see all that because they just figured well the daughters not coming and any more you know shes not going to complain. I just wanted him to be clean. Thats all i asked all i asked us for he asked hands to be cleaned and him being fed. Gonzalo tested positive for cocaine 1000 in late april very youre going nowhere. We have to you will. Find that. This was the last time angelica spoke to her grandfather. I was going to quarantine once and. I said i dont know im going to put on by his coming home. And then i saw. A bunch of birds. I say you keep right on come will you said ok or. He died less than a month after he became sick. 18 other kingston residents also died of corona virus and more than 100. 00 residents and 60 workers were infected. I just want to know what happened where what went wrong. Wired why did he go through all the. Based on what i know it strikes me as you know youve got a lot of people there in prague close proximity to each other and you have inadequate staffing and at least in the initial stages you had staff that were even provided with p. P. That sounds like a recipe for an outbreak in some ways the outbreak at kingston and other Nursing Homes all over the u. S. Is a reflection of everything that went wrong with the countrys handling of the pandemic a lack of personal protective equipment Contact Tracing and widespread testing feel to the crisis the thing that really went wrong in the United States and actually most of the world was a lack of recognition of the fact that this virus is absolutely deadly. To older adults but more specifically to older adults who live in congregate Senior Housing but for Nursing Homes like kingston the problems go beyond the federal response it was spreading you know it was like a fire in there basically and it was not not contained at all they tried but a lot with a lot of failure and then you had the Health Department come in same Different Things but they failed their you know to give us the right information on how to use that little bit of p. P. That we did have sold thats what we were and struggling to keep everything clean and sanitized thats what we were dealing with it was almost a nightmare you kind of wake up from we dont know what to do and we were scared for our families we were scared or scared of bringing something home though or giving us mass that we will have to use for 4 to 5 days saying its ok even though i will look it up and i would tell my manager on my supervisor this is not right were not supposed to thats fine just leave it in the sun its fine there was a lot of negligence on their part management supervision youre telling your staff you know youre nursing staff that this is how were going to do it no i didnt do that and was there supervision or management or anyone continuously on these people no do you think the facility was prepared for a covert 1000 now. Why do you think there were so many cases at euston i dont know i just. Think. It just didnt know that it would spread like it did. Kingston is on a government short list of the worst Nursing Homes in the country its been flagged for having a history of serious issues with patient care facilities with poor track records preparing demick have had worst. Breaks. Down the facilities that with a better track record so i mean nothing really that surprising facilities that are as equipped to do good Infection Control did worse with Infection Control with covert 19. So these are all the complaints filed against kingston in just one year this year 2020 state inspectors cited kingston 39 times for Health Violations more than 4 times the National Average there was a lot of mismanagement it goes down to when i would be cleaning my showers there would be fecal matter you know just left so when these people you know the nursing they would take the president there shower you know youre supposed to rinse it off you know it was just a lot of things like that and then you had residents that were digging you know scuse me i mean digging you know in their pamper its because its a natural instinct to try to clean yourself because theyre waiting for so long there and weaves ive seen that you know so many times there. Kingston has lower than average near Staffing Levels according to federal records. Experts and advocates we spoke to said that understaffing is a chronic problem in the industry kingston is a for profit facility. About 70 percent of the School Nursing facilities in the United States and so how is that facility able to generate a profit we have to cut back on stuff its the only one matt clark is an attorney in bakersfield whose firm has filed multiple lawsuits against kingston over the years i think that theres one answer to what amounts to really 2 questions right why have they had so many citations and why were the epicenter why would they the epicenter of the covert outbreak at least for a period of time in cook county inadequate stuff thats always the the answer that theres not enough staff to meet the needs of the residents they dont get fed as much staff that are in a hurry a lot of times make more errors so theres more medication errors they cut corners things dont get done and people die as a result. Minervas says conditions at kingston worsened after it changed ownership they took turns visiting gonzalo every day my biggest pick with them was my dad having faeces and his belt so i asked the nurses you can see his hands filthy oh the night shift got him up this morning and i said but you guys dont even wash their face or their hands she goes oh well make sure next time said ok so maybe a day would go ok and then you werent feeling the same thing again. It was all the time. Despite these problems kingston gets millions of dollars from Government Health care programs like medicaid and medicare to take in residents including low Income Patients like on salo do i have a system i want to put my parents on no. No i mean if youre filthy rich others of working elder care System Private pay system that i think is probably sufficient but for everyone else you know. And we know theres only going to be more elderly people coming down the pipeline. In my opinion its a completely broken system if its broken who do you think is accountable i think that owners of Nursing Homes. At least in the for profit or. How the county right the ownership of these things the way its structured its like an onion and youve got to peel back the layer and youll be another layer in the new peel back a layer and theres another layer and to get to the center it almost never happens. We wanted to know whos in charge of kingston. Want to ari you have reached a number that is connected or no longer. And we werent having much luck in bakersfield to hear your every error he tracked her and try your call again actually this is Pretty Amazing these are all the numbers weve called and we havent been able to reach anyone. So we travel to one of los angeless wealthiest neighborhoods Beverly Hills to the home of a man whos been trying to reach for several weeks and. Hes listed by the state as kingstons owner dr david silver. Doesnt look like theres anyone here but we did find out about silvers other job hes the c. E. O. Of the largest nursing Home Management company in california Rockport HealthCare Services security told us we cant go without in a point. Weve been calling the Office Number to try to get an appointment so its kind of like a catch 22. We found rock courts previous c. E. O. Dr Michael Wasserman a low dr wasserman how are you. Thank you so much for your time i was told that i would be running the company. Along the short was that wasnt true. Took me 15 months to figure it out. So its complicated it is comp and its done deliberately so i believe so. And the challenge is theres typically multiple ownership layers the lawyers do it that way so that the Real Estate Office will say we dont have anything to do with operation so things go wrong its not our fault i think what were really going to have to look at. Is what kind of influence do the real estate owners have on operations we took a closer look at kingstons records kingston rents the property from shlomo reckon its or to be precise from one of his Many Companies the l. A. Businessman employs Rockport HealthCare Services to manage his nursing home empire hi francisco this is melissa thanks for taking my call we called a researcher at the National Union of Health Care Workers theyve been investigating reckon its 4 years in august offering up a game or talking nursing home operators each other on the changing years its all about layers of basically themselves got into the 1st lady of legal liability or Regulatory Oversight or a number to use so when kingston pays the monthly rent whose owner is david silver. Who is he paying to please the shop owner. Wont give a short warranty thats what motivates what prompts you to give to some schlomo reckon its is a celebrated philanthropist and Community Leader but his Nursing Homes have a trouble track record. In 2014 then state attorney general comolli harris called him a serial violator of nursing home laws hes been sued at least 15 times for issues of negligence elder abuse and wrongful death in his Nursing Homes the issue with the Nursing Home Industry is the pressure that the owners of the nursing home real estate. Put on the facilities and when the pressure to make money and fill beds. Overrides. The the need the desire the mission to provide quality care and do the right thing thats when you get poor quality outcomes. That profit motive came into play during the pandemic last year a change in government reimbursement policy allowed years in homes to get more money for new patients the cording to reports these facilities could get at least 600 dollars more per day for kobe a patient at that time you got to remember a lot of people werent going to hospitals for routine services recruiting surgeries so the Nursing Homes were depleted of a lot of their normal. Pathway to residence so they had to be creative if they wanted to continue to make a lot of money and taking coburn 1000 patients probably seem like a good idea advocates say this encourages newsy homes to engage in a profit making scheme known as dumping or discharging some residents in favor of more profitable once its been happening at Nursing Homes around the country and its really based on whos paying for the care and where can the nursing home make more money its not supposed to be legal the facilities are not supposed to engage in that actually we have filed lawsuits over dumping successfully litigated lawsuits over dog does that mean it doesnt happen i was all taught in the last few months its picked up again weve heard of residents being sent to motels residents being sent to homeless shelters lots of residents being sent to unlicensed facilities where theres no care being provided its really just room and board. Use conical who will do an old. And just roll the wanderer thats what Daryl Kennedy says happened to his 89 year old uncle r. C. Kendrick r. C. Had been a resident at the Lakeview Terrace nursing home in los angeles for about a year in early april got a call from another facility saying that they had his uncle thats what i dont know about in chile so the next morning he walked up. Walked out of a very nice person showed to learn to walk or he would be back. And. You can come back on the bus and therefore you know down. Then he got a call from the police. Contacted me through the. Confused and big interest looking for food in order its a disgusting practice when it occurs were talking about the most volatile people in our society and theyre entitled to the same dignity and respect and certainly the same health care recuperative care as anyone in our community but its always worked out that way the city is suing make the terrorists over allegations that theyre dumping patients during the pandemic who do you hold accountable for all of this i will say leave you to your. Reason was you know. They negatives is super very dumb in the middle of the night like you prove the truth so i threw it. We reached out to the primary owner of lake you terrorist you who dish muckler hi i may actually speak to you who. He told us we were wasting his time and would not answer our questions. Lakefield has a history of dumping in 2019 the city settled a lawsuit with a facility for illegally evicting patients who were homeless or had Mental Health challenges and in the immediate aftermath of that settlement things appear to get better but then we allege the thing is to not get better in fact they got worse. We wondered why Nursing Homes with poor track records were allowed to keep operating so we went to talk to molly davies who investigates elder care complaints for Los Angeles County so what weve seen is that the regulatory enforcement system favors the industry above consumers and that is precisely the opposite of what it is designed to do citations are a drop in the bucket to the amount of money the industry can make by. Cutting corners on staffing why do you think some Nursing Homes with bad track records continue to get me licensed i think because the regulatory enforcement system feels like theyre in iraq and a hard place there are only so many operators. They dont want to lose nursing home beds because. Nursing home beds are growing there you know people are building Nursing Homes the problem you have is if we start closing them down were we going to put the old people. Which is why Public Health looks the other way. Robert their grandmother delores was a resident a Country Villa westwick a nursing home in Los Angeles Robert alleges that in october 2018 the facility removed her bed rails despite knowing she was at risk of falling i never followed complaint but that welled up what i had to do. Now because this is life and death. No. I knew she was going to fall out of bed. 2 weeks later his mother fell and hit her head on the nightstand she was on life support for nearly a month. And. I was by her side i held her hand because i promised her i will hold her hand until you can list for us. The. Invention i. Robert is suing the facility which is also owned by shlomo reckon its the nursing home magnate the lawsuit claims that the nursing home was understaffed and the people who did work there didnt have proper training they say this was an attempt to cut labor costs and increase profits if its all about profit because labor is your biggest. Gift right. Or 2. 00 and if you want to youre going to cut it always sure it was better for them so you start spreading things around where you dont get things of place like that little building or just basic things could have catastrophic results in 20 years of practicing elder abuse law mike moran has worked on a number of fragments cases have serious o. B. Nose concerns of both ocean level approaches you know fish for sure Business People who. Want to have a business particularly over we meet with them for. I think. After doloress death Country Villa westwood was fined at least 20000. 00 by the department of Public Health shelmon reckon its continues to own and operate the facility he didnt respond to or repeated requests point interview or a comment. By never got a phone call from the Country Villa. Expressing were sorry for what happened. Its like. Another day for business. And anyone has a loved one a day you are thinking about putting it definitely find out who owns the business hows the business set up. Go to a lawyer work in reverse. The problem has always been an foresman so the the results of violating the regulations is often very minimal punishment or no punishment at all. We asked the California Department of Public Health operators with troubled track records continue getting we licensed they said each application is considered on its own basis and that their office conducts comprehensive investigations into complaints. As for kingston we eventually heard back from dr david silver he said theyve been working closely with the state Health Department and as of september they had no new covert cases for 3 months. I believe that years in years of. An industry that his functioned as a business and not as a deliverer of Quality Health care. Has led to a lot of bad habits so every dollar that is spent. On that real estate is not being spent on direct patient care theres just a level of acceptance for putting older people onto an island and casting them away from the rest of society that would not be tolerated with any other group and i think that thats just a mainly a result of ages on and really poor government monitoring. If this pandemic isnt enough to sort of change the culture of the way we do policy for older folks in this country then than probably nothing is ever going to do it the problem being without oversight all were going to see is the total number of deaths and the total number of deaths are going to be quite frightening once we finally know what they actually have been with Nursing Homes would be comed this countrys killing fields. Because of an 1000 pandemic has exposed deep cracks in the us elder care system. Raising questions of whether some Nursing Homes could profits over patient care. Will growing older the whole world growing older. And how we take care of the elderly. Tells us what kind of people we are. A secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt will in the case of who receive such. 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