A former Best Western hotel bought by the city of Long Beach during the pandemic, with the hopes of transitioning the homeless to permanent housing, has seen 20 of the 257 people it enrolled die at the facility since March 2021.
A former hotel turned transitional housing is the site where 20 people died of previous medical conditions, drug overdose and blunt force injuries. A former Best Western hotel bought by the city of Long Beach during the pandemic, with the hopes of transitioning the homeless to permanent housing, has seen 20 of the 257 people it enrolled die at the facility since March 2021. “We mourn every person who died,” the city wrote in a statement.
“Over the past three years, we have prioritized people who are older and people with chronic or terminal health conditions such as cancer, heart and kidney failure and other serious health conditions.” Cause of death data NBC4 obtained in just the last two years shows at least one person died of an overdose and another of blunt force injuries. “The City is aware of one death caused by overdose of methamphetamines and one that was a vehicular collision. The other deaths were caused by medical conditions or are unknown to us as an autopsy was not conducted or reported by the LA County Medical Examiners Offic
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