The federal government has fined the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home on the Big Island more than half a million dollars for repeated violations in infection control measures.
Hawaii Lawmakers Kill Bill To Improve Care At Veterans And Nursing Homes - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Lawmakers Kill Bill To Improve Care At Veterans And Nursing Homes
Health care administrators argued the bill, drafted in response to the deadly outbreak last year at a Hilo facility, could make health care slower. Reading time: 2 minutes.
State senators have decided to indefinitely defer a bill that would have added several new requirements on state veterans homes and nursing homes after dozens testified that the bill mostly asked them to make reforms already in place and potentially created new problems in the long term.
Jan 14, 2021
HONOLULU (AP) A Hawaii island veterans home that suffered a coronavirus outbreak resulting in several patient deaths is under new management.
The Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo will be operated by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation under the management of Administrator Kau’i Chartrand, Hawaii Public Radio reported Monday.
An August COVID-19 outbreak at Yukio Okutsu infected 35 staff and 71 residents, including 27 who died.
The state-owned health care organization took over the home in an agreement resulting in Utah-based Avalon Health Care relinquishing control of the facility, which the company had run since it opened in 2007.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave the home a health inspection rating of one star out of five.
(AP) A Hawai’i island veterans home that suffered a coronavirus outbreak resulting in several patient deaths is under new management. Hawai’i Public Radio reported the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo will be operated by the Hawai’i Health Systems Corporation under the management of Administrator Kau’i Chartrand. An August COVID-19 outbreak at Yukio Okutsu infected 35 staff and 71 residents, including 27 who died. The state-owned health care organization took over the home in an agreement resulting in Utah-based Avalon Health Care relinquishing control of the facility, which the company ran since it opened in 2007. Avalon did not immediately respond Tuesday to an email seeking comment.