Tracy and her family agonized over moving her grandmother from the nursing facility in Boyle Heights where she had lived comfortably for four years, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
“It breaks our hearts because we don’t know what her last weeks were like,” Tracy said. “We didn’t know this was going on. We were told they were COVID-free and we could visit twice a week.” Patients and doctors say they were never informed or consulted about Kei-Ai’s participation in the program. And many now are questioning the wisdom of a policy that relieved hospital crowding by placing the most vulnerable people at risk. Nearly a third of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred at nursing homes.Dr. Takeshi Matsumoto began 2020 with 15 patients at Kei-Ai Los Angeles. Most of them have contracted COVID-19, and five have died.
Matsumoto, who has seen thousands of patients at Kei-Ai Los Angeles over the years, said none of his 15 patients or their families were aware. Other doctors and patients’ families that I spoke to also said they were unaware. “We will continue to honor the legacy of these communities, these patients, and these families. We are all in this together,” Mitchell wrote in a statement.County health officials declined to reveal the number of transfers to each designated nursing facility, which would have allowed a better understanding about the connection between transfers, infections and deaths.
Matsumoto acknowledges that federal disease protocols have changed multiple times and that the early difficulty in obtaining tests made isolating patients difficult. But he alleged that protocols at Kei-Ai weren’t always followed. He said he’s aware of COVID-positive patients at Kei-Ai who were returned to healthy floors without being tested.
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