Todd Murch News Today

UPDATED Dec. 22, 10:45 p.m. The San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, one of the largest senior facilities in the Bay Area, administered 195 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine today to some of its frontline workers, including doctors, nurses, certified nursing assistants, housekeeping staff and food service workers. It is one of the first skilled nursing facilities in the state to administer the vaccine to its staff, according to Michael Wasserman, President of the California Assoc...

Three residents at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living have died from Covid-related complications, according to an update on its website. The SFCJL is now the second Jewish senior facility in the Bay Area to experience coronavirus deaths. Eight deaths were reported in October in the memory-care program at Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco. “While the residents were near end of life prior to contracting COVID,” stated a letter signed by the SFCJL’s CEO Daniel Ruth, “the Board, ...