Los Angeles County officials have acknowledged that their testing of residents and staff at nursing homes is taking too long, following a Times investigation that found it took the county health department more than a week to provide tests for employees at Norwalk Skilled Nursing & Wellness Center…
that found it took the county health department more than a week to provide tests for employees at Norwalk Skilled Nursing & Wellness Center after a resident tested positive.
As of Friday, 306 skilled nursing facilities had tested their residents and staff through their own labs, L.A. City’s testing program or with Public Health support, according to Dr. Prabhu Gounder, who works in the communicable disease section of the county health department Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, elderly nursing home residents, who are by far the most at risk, have suffered a devastating toll. As, COVID-19 had killed more than 2,000 residents and 64 employees of skilled nursing facilities in California.
More than half a dozen employees, who spoke with The Times on the condition their names not be used for fear of retaliation, said the facility has suffered from a severe shortage of personal protective equipment and allowed nurse aides to move back and forth between the “dirty” isolation unit meant to contain infected residents and the “clean” unit meant for those who weren’t sick yet.
Silver said his company had been in regular contact with both state and county health officials. When the first positive patient turned up at the Norwalk facility in mid-May, county officials informed him that “they were the ones who take care of testing,” Silver said.
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