Family claims that Glenhaven Healthcare nursing home prohibited staff from wearing masks and gloves, leading to a deadly outbreak at the Glendale facility.
The wife and children of a 77-year-old man who died after contracting the coronavirus have accused his nursing home of preventing staff from wearing masks and gloves during the pandemic, downplaying the threat of the virus and withholding information about exposure to COVID-19 inside the Glendale facility.
“I’m bringing this case to prevent this from happening to others, and to save lives,” said daughter Jackie Saldana.She said she alerted Los Angeles County health authorities about the conditions at Glenhaven before filing the suit. “They killed my dad. They could have prevented this,” she said. Nursing homes and other healthcare providers have been lobbying Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve an order that would immunize elder care facilities from lawsuits and prosecutions.That order has yet to be signed, although similar measures have been adopted in at least a dozen other states. The attorney representing the Saldana family criticized the potential shield as “a terrible idea.”
Elder care facilities have increasingly become hot spots of the pandemic’s devastation, with thousands of medically frail residents in close quarters, cared for by staff members who shuttle among rooms and multiple facilities and have limited access to protective equipment. About half of the more than 3,600 deaths related to COVID-19 in California have been linked to nursing homes, and the share of nursing home residents among the dead has grown as the pandemic has persisted.
At Glenhaven Healthcare, the 52-bed facility in Glendale, inspection reports compiled by federal regulators in recent years show several deficiencies, including infection control problems. An As the pandemic prompted shutdown orders, Glenhaven did not provide personal protective equipment to staff members. They instead brought their own masks and bandannas, the lawsuit states, but were instructed by administrators to remove them. One nurse was told not to wear a mask, but argued that she was sick and needed the covering to protect colleagues and patients.
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