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President Donald Trump’s federal spending cuts have drastically deepened the city’s budget shortfall, and in December, Lurie directed departments to find ways to cut a total of $400 million ahead of his budget proposal coming next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But city workers and advocates for the services they provide say the city is ignoring alternatives that could save jobs and minimize impacts to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has funds. They just need to dip into their reserves,” Healy said. “There’s no reason to diminish the care that we provide to the residents of San Francisco. This is a safety net hospital.”[aside postID=news_12078490 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GroceriesAP.jpg']She and others are also calling for the passage of Proposition D, the Overpaid CEO Act, which would levy taxes on large corporations where the chief executive earns more than 100 times their median employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one of the richest cities in the world, cuts like this are a choice, not a necessity,” Mark Leach, Teamsters 856 representative and San Francisco resident, said in a statement. “Large corporations are cashing in on Trump’s tax breaks, but we can make them pay their fair share in San Francisco by passing Prop D in June.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposition say it could generate up to $300 million in funding to backfill money the city has lost in economic fallout surrounding the pandemic and since cuts by the Trump Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s goal to shave off $400 million in annual spending includes about $100 million from personnel savings, which his administration has estimated will translate to about 500 positions eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers who received pink slips this week got a 30-day notice, and others may have 60 days, depending on their position and tenure. Some civil service employees whose jobs are being eliminated will be able to request a different position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079148\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Maria-Elena-Healy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Maria-Elena-Healy-2.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Maria-Elena-Healy-2-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria-Elena Healy, a registered nurse at Laguna Honda Hospital, was among the 127 San Francisco city workers to receive layoff notices this week. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Maria-Elena Healy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Healy said she received a 60-day notice for her termination, but any details on her employment options with the city have been opaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually could not answer some of the questions that we had,” Healy said. “It’s very difficult to make decisions about our lives and our livelihoods when the city failed to even give us the information that we needed to make those decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healy said she and her three colleagues, who were also laid off, are clinical nurse specialists with expertise in certain areas, like cardiovascular health and diabetes care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s seen Laguna Honda, one of the country’s oldest and largest public skilled nursing homes, weather a storm of regulatory challenges in recent years, including when state and federal regulators pulled its Medicaid and Medicare certification and nearly shut the hospital down several years ago amid a series of safety violations. 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The final plan cut about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">1,400 mostly vacant positions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job as mayor is to set up our city for success, not just today but for years to come,” Lurie said in response to the recent controller’s report, which projected a lower budget deficit overall. “We will deliver a fiscally sound budget that prioritizes core services, delivers results for San Franciscans and ensures a broad and durable economic recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must present his upcoming budget proposal by June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070484/tune-in-tonight-san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-live-on-kqed\">Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration\u003c/a> sent 127 layoff notices to city employees across 18 different departments, part of a total of around 500 positions that the mayor intends to cut. Additional layoffs are expected to be announced later this spring, and the mayor has said he also intends to freeze about 2,000 open positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a choice: take action now or be forced to do twice as much in the coming years,” Lurie said in a statement. “The steps we’re taking today are a painful but necessary continuation of the work we’ve been doing since last year to manage taxpayer dollars responsibly and deliver the best possible services for San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Departments impacted by the 127 layoffs so far include the Department of Public Health, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the City Administrator’s Office, the Human Services Agency and the Police Department. A spokesperson for Lurie’s office did not specify which departments have seen the most layoffs so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Signage reading Laguna Honda Hospital over the entryway to a large tile-roofed building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Laguna Honda Hospital administration building in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The layoffs were expected even as the city’s projected budget deficit improved from $936 million to $643 million in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/March_Update_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30_FINAL.pdf\">City Controller’s report\u003c/a>. President Donald Trump’s federal spending cuts have drastically deepened the city’s budget shortfall, and in December, Lurie directed departments to find ways to cut a total of $400 million ahead of his budget proposal coming next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But city workers and advocates for the services they provide say the city is ignoring alternatives that could save jobs and minimize impacts to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has funds. They just need to dip into their reserves,” Healy said. “There’s no reason to diminish the care that we provide to the residents of San Francisco. This is a safety net hospital.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7858210&GUID=73DF6CC5-C865-4168-B284-4E9B0B35C1AA\">has agreed to pay $500,000\u003c/a> to a family that sued for wrongful death and elder abuse after their relative died following his transfer out of Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement was approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday and comes after an overhaul of Laguna Honda, a safety net hospital for low-income patients with complex medical needs, which lost its certification in 2022 after failing a series of safety inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working to regain good standing, state and federal regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939793/were-down-to-the-wire-again-feds-to-decide-this-week-if-laguna-honda-must-resume-patient-transfers\">forced the hospital to prepare for potential closure\u003c/a> and some residents were discharged or transferred to other skilled nursing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people died shortly after moving, which some nursing home watchdogs have attributed to a detrimental disruption in care during the relocation process, known as transfer trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought it was necessary to keep Laguna Honda from being shut down by the state. But in fact, what they were doing was more harmful,” said Teresa Palmer, an advocate with the social justice organization Gray Panthers who worked as a physician at Laguna Honda from 1989 to 2004. “They were violating patients’ rights and safety and discharging them illegally to nursing homes where they wouldn’t get as good care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940770\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three women with banners stand outside the Laguna Honda hospital entrance with protest signs in their hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Gutierrez, 74, speaks out during a protest against the discharge and transfer of patients from the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, in San Francisco, on Feb. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Pham family sued the city and county of San Francisco in 2023, alleging elder abuse and neglect, violation of patients’ rights and wrongful death for their father, Quy Pham, who had moved into Laguna Honda in 2021 and lived with Alzheimer’s disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Laguna Honda worked toward recertification, which it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958392/medi-cal-reinstates-laguna-honda-in-major-win-for-the-states-largest-public-nursing-home\">achieved in 2023\u003c/a>, state and federal regulators urged the hospital to discharge and transfer patients. According to the complaint, the Pham family was contacted during that time and told that a bed would be available for their father at Seton Hospital in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want him to go there, but they reluctantly agreed because they felt pressured,” said Kathryn Stebner, the attorney representing the Pham family.[aside postID=news_12064768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/008_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023_qed.jpg']Their father left Laguna Honda on July 8 and died on July 25 at Seton, the complaint states. He was 80 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They noticed a quick decline, and he died really quickly after,” Stebner said, adding that Pham required assistance for just about every aspect of daily living. “There are laws and regulations that say what exactly is to be done if someone is transferred and we alleged they did not prepare him for this. If people with dementia are moved, even to a different building, they can go downhill immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner’s firm initially filed three lawsuits alleging that transfer trauma led to wrongful death after the hospital began transferring patients. Two of those cases were dismissed, and Pham’s case ended with a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although defendants knew of conditions that made [Pham] unable to provide for his own basic needs as described herein, defendants recklessly and egregiously denied and withheld goods or services necessary to meet [Pham]’s basic needs,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2025, San Francisco agreed to pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064768/sf-to-pay-5-8-million-in-class-action-settlement-over-elder-abuse-at-laguna-honda\">$5.8 million in a class action settlement\u003c/a> over elder abuse claims at Laguna Honda between 2016 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health, which runs Laguna Honda, declined to comment and referred KQED to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the proposed settlement is an appropriate resolution given the inherent costs of continued litigation,” said Jen Kwart, a spokesperson for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner said the settlement with the Pham family is the last remaining lawsuit her firm has closed stemming from the turmoil at Laguna Honda while it faced potential closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that by filing all these lawsuits that the families can hold the city and county accountable and I hope we did do that,” Stebner said. “And hopefully this journey is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Their father left Laguna Honda on July 8 and died on July 25 at Seton, the complaint states. He was 80 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They noticed a quick decline, and he died really quickly after,” Stebner said, adding that Pham required assistance for just about every aspect of daily living. “There are laws and regulations that say what exactly is to be done if someone is transferred and we alleged they did not prepare him for this. If people with dementia are moved, even to a different building, they can go downhill immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner’s firm initially filed three lawsuits alleging that transfer trauma led to wrongful death after the hospital began transferring patients. Two of those cases were dismissed, and Pham’s case ended with a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although defendants knew of conditions that made [Pham] unable to provide for his own basic needs as described herein, defendants recklessly and egregiously denied and withheld goods or services necessary to meet [Pham]’s basic needs,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2025, San Francisco agreed to pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064768/sf-to-pay-5-8-million-in-class-action-settlement-over-elder-abuse-at-laguna-honda\">$5.8 million in a class action settlement\u003c/a> over elder abuse claims at Laguna Honda between 2016 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health, which runs Laguna Honda, declined to comment and referred KQED to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the proposed settlement is an appropriate resolution given the inherent costs of continued litigation,” said Jen Kwart, a spokesperson for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner said the settlement with the Pham family is the last remaining lawsuit her firm has closed stemming from the turmoil at Laguna Honda while it faced potential closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that by filing all these lawsuits that the families can hold the city and county accountable and I hope we did do that,” Stebner said. “And hopefully this journey is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> is poised to pay out $5.8 million after reaching a settlement in a lawsuit claiming staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/laguna-honda-hospital\">Laguna Honda Hospital\u003c/a> and Rehabilitation Center took explicit photos of patients and disseminated them for non-medical purposes, along with other abuse and privacy violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is the latest rectification and first class action for the patient abuse scandal at Laguna Honda Hospital, one of the nation’s largest public nursing homes, following reports between 2016 and 2019 that thrust the facility into turmoil. Both parties have agreed to the payment, which will go before the city’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Thursday for approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $5.8 million settlement will be distributed among 735 current and former Laguna Honda patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This on its face says, ‘Look, you had a systemic problem. This was going on and this was hurting everybody,’” said Kathryn Stebner, who represented plaintiffs in the case. “We bring class actions to make a political statement, to try to make social change. And I think this does send that message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 159-year-old hospital has long served as a safety net for some of the city’s poorest and most vulnerable residents, with some living at Laguna Honda for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was initially filed in 2020 on behalf of a Laguna Honda resident, claiming staff took photos of his genital area during an enema procedure and that staff circulated the image for non-medical purposes. Another named plaintiff, Tommy O. 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The period of time was while the hospital was uncertified and undergoing major changes, after regulators with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services found several health and safety issues across multiple inspection surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laguna Honda is unwavering in our commitment to resident safety and wellbeing,” a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Public Health, which oversees the massive facility, said in an email. “The 2019 patient mistreatment incidents were antithetical to what Laguna Honda stands for as the safety-net healthcare facility caring for San Franciscans most in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class action is one of three recent lawsuits over the abuse scandal that broke out just before the pandemic. Another lawsuit was filed on behalf of individual residents who had fallen and suffered injuries such as broken hips, Stebner said. The third lawsuit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952012/san-francisco-to-pay-2-2-million-settlement-to-victims-in-laguna-honda-patient-abuse-scandal\">settled in 2023 for $2.2 million\u003c/a>, focused on 11 individual patients at Laguna Honda after a group of nurses were found to have taken nude photos of some patients and drugged and abused others.[aside postID=news_12026662 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023_qed-1020x680.jpg']Nursing home reform supporters with the Gray Panthers, a group of advocates focused on long-term care and other issues facing older San Franciscans, estimate that the city has had to pay nearly $12 million in fines and lawsuit settlements relating to the sexual abuse scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the San Francisco City Attorney said the class action settlement is an “appropriate response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility took several steps after uncovering evidence of patient mistreatment and privacy violations between 2016 and 2019, including firing staff who took part in abuse and reorganizing the hospital’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But problems for Laguna Honda didn’t end there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, two non-fatal overdoses occurred on-site involving methamphetamine and fentanyl, triggering a series of inspections. Federal regulators then decertified Laguna Honda in April 2022 after finding issues with staff hygiene and other problems, such as smoking and drug use on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital was forced to pause admissions while it worked to regain certification with Medicare and Medi-Cal, which covers the vast majority of the elderly and low-income residents at Laguna Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, federal regulators had the hospital begin discharging patients in anticipation of a possible shutdown. More than 50 people were discharged or transferred to other skilled nursing facilities, and some ended up in homeless shelters. Twelve frail and elderly patients died shortly after their transfer out of the facility to other nursing homes.”State and federal regulators agreed to pause the mandated discharges in 2022, after an outcry from San Francisco officials and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility achieved recertification again in 2024 after undergoing rigorous inspections and retraining for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757927\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Laguna_Honda_Hospital_and_Rehabilitation_Center_-_San_Francisco_CA_-_DSC03931-e1561745657127.jpg\" alt=\"Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, where a group of former staff members allegedly abused nearly two dozen patients for years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1324\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, where a group of former staff members allegedly abused nearly two dozen patients for years. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laguna_Honda_Hospital_and_Rehabilitation_Center_-_San_Francisco,_CA_-_DSC03931.jpg#/media/File:Laguna_Honda_Hospital_and_Rehabilitation_Center_-_San_Francisco,_CA_-_DSC03931.jpg\">Daderot/Wikipedia\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Laguna Honda has undergone significant restructuring and has been the focus of extensive improvements facility-wide, including new policies, enhanced quality management protocols, and new programs that align with national best practices,” the Public Health Department spokesperson said. “This is all with the goal of creating a lasting culture of safety, transparency, and continuous improvement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The population at Laguna Honda has dropped from more than 700 residents in November 2020 to 541 as of September 2025, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Palmer, a physician who worked at Laguna Honda for nearly three decades, said the class action settlement underscores the need for more staffing at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All kinds of abuse and neglect are expressions of understaffing of both supervisory staff and direct care staff,” Palmer said. “People are so overworked and fear retaliation, and things are covered up because staff are just trying to get through the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nursing home reform supporters with the Gray Panthers, a group of advocates focused on long-term care and other issues facing older San Franciscans, estimate that the city has had to pay nearly $12 million in fines and lawsuit settlements relating to the sexual abuse scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the San Francisco City Attorney said the class action settlement is an “appropriate response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility took several steps after uncovering evidence of patient mistreatment and privacy violations between 2016 and 2019, including firing staff who took part in abuse and reorganizing the hospital’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But problems for Laguna Honda didn’t end there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, two non-fatal overdoses occurred on-site involving methamphetamine and fentanyl, triggering a series of inspections. Federal regulators then decertified Laguna Honda in April 2022 after finding issues with staff hygiene and other problems, such as smoking and drug use on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital was forced to pause admissions while it worked to regain certification with Medicare and Medi-Cal, which covers the vast majority of the elderly and low-income residents at Laguna Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, federal regulators had the hospital begin discharging patients in anticipation of a possible shutdown. More than 50 people were discharged or transferred to other skilled nursing facilities, and some ended up in homeless shelters. Twelve frail and elderly patients died shortly after their transfer out of the facility to other nursing homes.”State and federal regulators agreed to pause the mandated discharges in 2022, after an outcry from San Francisco officials and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility achieved recertification again in 2024 after undergoing rigorous inspections and retraining for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757927\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Laguna_Honda_Hospital_and_Rehabilitation_Center_-_San_Francisco_CA_-_DSC03931-e1561745657127.jpg\" alt=\"Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, where a group of former staff members allegedly abused nearly two dozen patients for years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1324\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, where a group of former staff members allegedly abused nearly two dozen patients for years. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laguna_Honda_Hospital_and_Rehabilitation_Center_-_San_Francisco,_CA_-_DSC03931.jpg#/media/File:Laguna_Honda_Hospital_and_Rehabilitation_Center_-_San_Francisco,_CA_-_DSC03931.jpg\">Daderot/Wikipedia\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Laguna Honda has undergone significant restructuring and has been the focus of extensive improvements facility-wide, including new policies, enhanced quality management protocols, and new programs that align with national best practices,” the Public Health Department spokesperson said. “This is all with the goal of creating a lasting culture of safety, transparency, and continuous improvement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The population at Laguna Honda has dropped from more than 700 residents in November 2020 to 541 as of September 2025, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Palmer, a physician who worked at Laguna Honda for nearly three decades, said the class action settlement underscores the need for more staffing at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All kinds of abuse and neglect are expressions of understaffing of both supervisory staff and direct care staff,” Palmer said. “People are so overworked and fear retaliation, and things are covered up because staff are just trying to get through the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As one of the city’s remaining nursing homes prepares to close in April, nearly 250 beds are currently sitting empty in San Francisco’s largest public skilled nursing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a multi-year scandal that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889843/laguna-honda-hospital-has-60-days-to-move-over-600-patients-before-it-shuts-down-its-only-placed-58-so-far\">nearly shuttered the more than 150-year-old facility\u003c/a>, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center resumed admitting new patients last July after two years of internal reforms and working with federal officials to make good on past infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952012/san-francisco-to-pay-2-2-million-settlement-to-victims-in-laguna-honda-patient-abuse-scandal\">beleaguered\u003c/a> nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991292/laguna-honda-recertified-by-medicare-in-major-milestone-for-san-francisco-hospital\">is back open for new residents\u003c/a>. However, admissions are off to a slow pace as Laguna Honda remains under the microscope of state and federal regulators despite a growing need for skilled nursing care in San Francisco and across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a well-known fact that there is a dearth of nursing home beds in San Francisco,” said Tony Chicotel, an attorney with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. “It’s jarring that the facility is allowed to admit residents now and still has so many open beds when we hear from people all the time in the Bay Area that there is no nursing home space for people to go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home experts say San Francisco has a large population of low-income seniors who need round-the-clock care in their community, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-06/Skilled%20Nursing%20Transfer%20Ordinance%20-%202023%20-%20HC%20Presentation.pdf\">many people have to move out of the county\u003c/a> away from loved ones due to the region’s scant affordable nursing home options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need is about to get compounded as dozens of elderly residents at St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street near the Presidio \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/st-annes-home-little-sisters-poor-to-close-sf/\">will need to find new housing before the facility closes on April 8\u003c/a> due to staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laguna Honda is working with St. Anne’s to bring over residents who are about to lose their homes and has offered beds to past residents who were discharged during Laguna Honda’s recertification process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this is a challenging time, and you have my commitment that the city will support you in this transition,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting, addressing the closure of St. Anne’s. “We must have a broader strategy for seniors to live safely and actively engaged in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently 435 residents at Laguna Honda, compared with the hospital’s licensed bed capacity of 649. The hospital previously had a capacity for nearly 800 residents. However, federal regulation changes after the pandemic required rooms to have no more than three residents, stripping the hospital of 120 beds. Officials at Laguna Honda said they are trying to recertify the 120 beds to bring capacity back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laguna Honda has welcomed a total of 78 new residents out of 179 referrals since resuming admissions on July 31, 2024, according to San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of denials were due to patients deemed to have “behavioral health needs too complex” for a nursing home, including substance use or mental disorders. Others were due to being “too medically complex” and for needing lower levels of care than residential skilled nursing, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/02032025_LHH_JCC_Exec_Report_Presentation.pdf\">report\u003c/a> shared at the Health Commission meeting on February 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Laguna Honda officials say they are actively welcoming new residents and that there is no waitlist for those who meet its criteria, with a goal to fill the remaining beds by December 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are admitting anybody who meets the criteria to be in a skilled nursing facility, and we are ramping up admissions,” Laguna Honda CEO Diltar Sidhu told KQED. “Laguna Honda is back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11991292]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New patients at Laguna Honda must meet industry-standard nursing home criteria, including being a resident of San Francisco whose primary diagnosis is a medical condition — not psychiatric — who requires nursing facility care, physical or cognitive impairment requiring higher attention than a lower-level board and care facility, or daily rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after several years of intense oversight, Laguna Honda is taking caution as it moves forward. Officials must walk a fine line to remain in good standing with regulators while responding to the community’s needs in a timely manner. Bringing on new patients is also necessary to receive federal dollars for patients, especially as the city faces a nearly $800 million budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With every bed that sits empty, that’s also reimbursement we aren’t getting, so it’s also a financial issue during a tough budget season,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, whose district encompasses Laguna Honda. “I’m hoping the pace of admissions is at least maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laguna Honda was already under intense scrutiny following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782161/newly-uncovered-cases-of-patient-abuse-at-laguna-honda-bring-incident-count-to-130\">massive abuse case\u003c/a> affecting nearly 130 patients from 2016 to 2019. Then, in 2022, after two nonfatal overdoses took place at Laguna Honda, the hospital failed to pass a series of inspections and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958392/medi-cal-reinstates-laguna-honda-in-major-win-for-the-states-largest-public-nursing-home\">lost its standing with Medicare and Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, which covers the vast majority of patients at Laguna Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to be very careful about people who have behavioral problems,” said Teresa Palmer, a retired physician at Laguna Honda and nursing home advocate. “In a traditional nursing home with frail elders, you need to protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11952012]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit against the hospital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">over deaths and poorly managed discharges\u003c/a> during the recertification process is still active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one issue was that we were admitting dual-diagnosed patients and running Laguna Honda like a hospital instead of a nursing home, which is the license we have,” Melgar said. “So that got us into trouble in the first place. They dinged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The empty beds sit at Laguna Honda as Lurie has vowed to open up more treatment facilities and various types of behavioral health and emergency shelter beds. But those efforts are separate from the skilled nursing beds available at Laguna Honda specifically for “traditional” nursing home patients — such as elderly people with chronic illness, dementia and other acute medical or rehabilitation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, these are not mutually exclusive populations in need of round-the-clock care. Seniors make up the fastest-growing portion of the homeless population, and substance use disorder exists across age groups and other demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who primarily need medical skilled nursing care but also have behavioral or mental health challenges can be admitted, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the perspective of maintaining the federal certification and not creating any waves that could cause more regulatory scrutiny, it would be smart to admit a more traditional nursing home resident,” Chicotel said. “But from the perspective of an institution that is set up to care for the vulnerable residents of the community, I would think they would welcome residents who have skilled nursing needs and other needs as well.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center needs millions of dollars in \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12265858&GUID=8E551256-66BD-4EAA-B413-BEF705C4E91F\">repair work\u003c/a> as the nearly 187-year-old public nursing facility continues to seek good standing with federal regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6289513&GUID=436B0AF8-B6FC-4ABE-9F75-5079A8253F50\">voted to authorize\u003c/a> the city to spend up to $28.4 million on emergency renovations that officials say are integral to coming into compliance with Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Roland Pickens, director and chief executive, San Francisco Health Network\"]‘As we did with the Medicaid survey, our goal is to demonstrate that we meet their high standards of resident care and safety and should be allowed reentry into the Medicare program.’[/pullquote]The request for the emergency repairs funds comes about a month after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958392/medi-cal-reinstates-laguna-honda-in-major-win-for-the-states-largest-public-nursing-home\">California’s Medi-Cal program fully restored funding to Laguna Honda Hospital\u003c/a>, and nearly two years since federal regulators decertified the hospital for multiple safety violations in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great progress we made and the Medicaid certification gave us a boost of confidence that we will be successful for the Medicare survey,” said Roland Pickens, director and chief executive of the San Francisco Health Network at a Health Commission hearing on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of residents, many of whom are on extremely low and fixed incomes, rely on subsidized health care plans like Medi-Cal, which provides about $200 million in annual funding to Laguna Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 23, Laguna Honda officials submitted the hospital’s application to rejoin Medicare, Pickens said. Approval from Medicare is crucial to resuming admissions to the hospital, which have been on hold since regulators decertified it two years ago. That’s because most patients are enrolled in Medicare upon admission to the facility, Pickens said, and they later transition to the state-subsidized Medi-Cal program. If the hospital can’t accept Medicare patients, Pickens said, many people that the hospital seeks to serve would no longer meet admissions criteria.[aside postID=\"news_11958159,news_11958392,news_11952012\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Next, federal regulators with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will inspect the hospital, which could come at any time and without notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that inspection, regulators will be looking for potential hazards and improvements to previously identified areas of concern, like medication storage and basic hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other repairs and renovations are in order, according to funding requests made and approved at the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The list of projects includes fixing HVAC system deficiencies and leaky fuel lines, and replacing items like an old X-Ray, kitchen freezer, water tank, kitchen floors and a backup power generator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the deficient conditions were identified before the recertification process began, city documents show. However, the Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12267304&GUID=9C8EE5BB-0A88-4A43-8DEE-E11E7C40FD8B\">noted in a report to the city’s Budget and Finance Committee\u003c/a> that they considered “their completion to be an emergency because they are critical to receiving and maintaining Medicaid & Medicare certification and funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health outlined some of the repair needs in \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12250384&GUID=BA7F60D9-17D0-4F83-AF29-9E2BE6C767C8\">a letter to Public Works back in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we did with the Medicaid survey, our goal is to demonstrate that we meet their high standards of resident care and safety and should be allowed reentry into the Medicare program,” Pickens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services ordered the hospital to move patients out. Out of 57 people who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. City Attorney David Chiu then led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">a lawsuit against the federal government\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">the relocation program was paused\u003c/a> as part of their settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital officials said they are no longer preparing for forced transfers to resume on Sept. 19, now that Laguna Honda is certified with Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no indication that anyone is expecting us to resume transfers on the 19th, nor are we making preparations,” Pickens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after Laguna Honda is readmitted back into Medicare will it resume admissions for new residents again, hospital officials said Tuesday. Laguna Honda is licensed for more than 700 residents but the total number of patients living there has dropped to nearly 500 while admissions have been frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital is rapidly trying to hire up in a few key areas before it can welcome new patients, too. 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"content": "\u003cp>Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has submitted its application to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941887/health-secretary-xavier-becerra-visits-san-francisco-hospital-fighting-off-closure\">regain participation in Medicaid\u003c/a>. The government-subsidized health care plan supports 95% of patients at the hospital, but that funding was only temporarily granted while the hospital worked toward recertification with federal regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Roland Pickens, interim CEO, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center\"]‘This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened.’[/pullquote] The move marks a turning point in the almost two-year regulatory crisis that threatened to shutter Laguna Honda, the state’s largest public nursing facility and home to nearly 500 medically fragile residents with needs ranging from stroke rehabilitation to dementia and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened,” the hospital’s interim CEO Roland Pickens told KQED. “The most recent monitoring surveys went fairly well and gave us the confidence that we have made significant enough improvements and that we would be successful in attaining a recertification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Laguna Honda was found out of compliance on several safety issues across multiple regulatory surveys that federal regulators administered after the hospital self-reported two nonfatal overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the findings, federal regulators stripped Laguna Honda from Medicare and Medi-Cal, subsidized health care plans that cover the vast majority of residents at the facility, most of whom have extremely low or fixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required the hospital to craft and implement a plan to prepare for closure, and in return, the agency would temporarily sustain funding to the hospital. That plan involved assessing and relocating as many patients as possible in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 57 residents who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. Community members and government officials, including Mayor London Breed, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and others, publicly decried the regulators’ decision and advocated for a different response. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">The city sued the federal government\u003c/a> following the relocation deaths, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">the transfer process was paused\u003c/a> as part of a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Laguna Honda has taken steps to address deficiencies in areas such as medication storage and hygiene control. Regulators marked just 33 areas for improvement in a June 2023 monitoring survey to check progress, compared to the first survey that had 124 findings, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services will review the application next to determine what is to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Time is of the essence. The hospital is currently facing a deadline of Sept. 19 before the current temporary pause on involuntary transfers could resume. If relocations do resume, residents will have the right to appeal their transfer and must first be assessed for appropriate options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear exactly how long the process could take or whether the federal and state regulators could again delay the deadline. Pickens, however, said he hopes the regulatory process will be completed in time to prevent any additional involuntary transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to emphasize that applying for recertification is not the end of our work to improve our facility, but rather the beginning of a new era of excellence for Laguna Honda Hospital,” Pickens said in a letter to residents sent on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home reform advocates and members of the Laguna Honda community welcomed the news of the reapplication. 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The issue is even more pronounced for low-income elderly residents who rely on Medicare and Medi-Cal, typically those who can’t afford private nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said that residents who were transferred to other facilities during the 2022 relocation process will receive priority to come back once the hospital can resume admitting new patients again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New admissions have been on hold since the hospital was decertified. 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Laguna Honda and City leadership, as well as residents, families, and advocates, have strongly advocated against the involuntary transfers,” a spokesperson for the hospital wrote Tuesday in a media release. “This is the humane and compassionate path forward for our residents, their families, our staff, and all those who care about Laguna Honda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the city’s lawsuit in November 2022, the city and CMS reached a settlement agreement to pause the involuntary transfers until February 2023 and to continue health care payments through November 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2023, regulators agreed to extend the pause on transfers to May 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s update moves the deadline yet again to Sept. 19, 2023, and payments will continue through March 19, 2024.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"City Attorney David Chiu\"]‘The city and Laguna Honda have done a tremendous amount of work to come into compliance with the hundreds of requirements that have been asked of us and we believe we are in a good spot.’[/pullquote]“The city and Laguna Honda have done a tremendous amount of work to come into compliance with the hundreds of requirements that have been asked of us and we believe we are in a good spot,” said City Attorney David Chiu, whose office led the lawsuit against the federal regulators in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital can apply for recertification after it successfully completes its next monitoring survey with CMS, which hospital officials say they expect to happen by the end of May or in June of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laguna Honda is working diligently to make and sustain improvements that will serve our current residents and ensure Laguna Honda remains an essential part of the City and County of San Francisco’s commitment to public health,” the spokesperson said. “We remain confident that Laguna Honda is the best place for our residents to receive care.”[aside postID=news_11940765 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-1020x678.jpg']Meanwhile, senior and disability advocates have raised the alarm over the back-and-forth messaging that the hospital’s more than 500 residents and their families have endured throughout the regulatory spiral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resuming evictions or whatever you want to call them is extremely dangerous,” said Teresa Palmer, who previously worked at Laguna Honda, in a recent town hall meeting about patients’ rights ahead of the looming discharges. “I don’t see how evictions and transfers can be resumed without severe consequences, not only to patients, but to the government agencies that are forcing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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