San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital to Stop Discharging Patients After Deaths

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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital to Stop Discharging Patients After Deaths
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San Francisco Department of Public Health is working to get Laguna Honda Hospital recertified ahead of a Sept. 13 closure deadline but it is still required to transfer or discharge all patients, according to a closure plan.

San Francisco Department of Public Health is working to get the nursing home recertified ahead of a Sept. 13 closure deadline but it is still required to transfer or discharge all patients, according to a closure plan.

The transfers and discharges will be paused “while an assessment occurs over the coming weeks," U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure told the newspaper, adding that the agency posted a representative there on Tuesday. Sen. Diane Feinstein in May called on Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to reverse the federal agency's decision to terminate Laguna Honda Hospital’s participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs and force the relocation of its vulnerable patients.

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