SF News SF Curiously Considering Building a Gondola to Laguna Honda Hospital San Francisco is now officially assessing the possibility of building a gondola airlift from the Forest Hill Muni station to Laguna Honda hospital, a seemingly out-of-left-field idea that would admittedly be fun as heck if they actually went through with it.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Gets Reinstated by Medi-Cal, in Massive Win for the Facility After 17 months of turmoil, decertification, and attempts to close Laguna Honda Hospital, the hospital is now largely out of the woods after a full reinstatement by the state’s Medi-Cal program.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Gets Another Reprieve From Feds VP Kamala Harris spoke today at the funeral for Tyre Nichols in Memphis, federal regulators have once again granted a reprieve to Laguna Honda Hospital from having to move patients, and one SF property owner tried to use that 'builder's remedy' clause but it didn't actual kick in.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Wins One-Year Reprieve, Gets Funding Fully Reinstated The beleaguered Laguna Honda Hospital got the best news it’s had in months Wednesday, as federal officials agreed to fully reinstate their $18 million a month in funding, and halted a forced patient transfer program that seriously risked patients’ health.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Gets Two-Month Reprieve From Feds Laguna Honda doesn't have to discharge or transfer patients now until November 13, Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody is being deposed in a COVID lawsuit from a church, and a Southwest flight had to make an emergency landing in Oakland.
SF News SF Sues Feds For Forcing Laguna Honda Patient Transfers, Which Are Now Linked to Eight Deaths Two separate lawsuits — one from SF City Attorney David Chiu, and another from former City Attorney Louise Renne — look to claw back federal funding being denied to Laguna Honda Hospital, as the death toll among transferred patients now stands at eight.
SF News Now Four Patients Have Died After Being Moved Out of Laguna Honda Laguna Honda hospital is simultaneously moving patients out over its decertification while working on its recertification so it can keep patients there, and four fatalities highlight the tragic folly of this seemingly contradictory process.
SF News Laguna Honda Presents Plan to Shut Down and Relocate Nearly 700 Patients, Even Though They May Not Have To The feds are demanding that Laguna Honda hospital present a plan to close down and move nearly 700 patients out, and the Board of Supervisors grilled Laguna Honda’s leadership Tuesday on whether this DEFCON 1 scenario could actually happen.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Sees Medicare and Medicaid Funding Threatened After Violations San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is once again in trouble with regulators at the state and federal level, leaving it in a precarious financial situation — however city health officials insist the skilled nursing facility is not in danger of closing.
SF News New Outbreak at Laguna Honda Infects 50 and Counting, Kills 3 Elderly Residents A new outbreak of COVID-19 at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital — the first since a small outbreak was quickly contained in the spring and became a model for other long-term care facilities dealing with the pandemic — has infected more than 50 staff members and residents, and continues to grow.
SF News Harry Britt, Openly Gay SF Supervisor Who Succeeded Harvey Milk, Passes Away at 82 Harry Britt, the lauded LGBTQ rights activist and former SF supervisor, died earlier Wednesday at Laguna Honda Hospital after suffering from years of health issues; he was 82 years old.
SF News San Francisco Will Test All Residents and Staff at Nursing Homes Under New Order Following outbreaks at two nursing facilities in SF, a health order to be issued next week will mandate the biweekly testing of every resident and staff member at the 21 skilled nursing and care facilities in the city.
SF News Orinda Nursing Home Now Has 49 COVID Cases; Laguna Honda Has 16 A nursing facility in Orinda has become the latest hot spot for COVID-19 cases, with a total of 27 residents and 22 staffers now having tested positive. The Orinda Care Center first made headlines Friday when a total of 27 people — 24 residents and three staffers — turned up positive.
SF News Public Health Director Fears Imminent Surge of COVID-19 Cases at Laguna Honda Hospital It was reported this week that six staff members and one resident at Laguna Honda Hospital tested positive for COVID-19. SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax is now concerned about a likely outbreak of the novel coronavirus at the facility — which houses hundreds of elderly patients.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Laguna Honda Resident Tests Positive A 17-year-old Lancaster boy died of COVID-19 after being refused care for lack of insurance, Laguna Honda Hospital is bracing for a potential outbreak, and three new mobile testing sites are opening in SF next week.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Locked Down After Five Staff Members Test Positive For COVID-19 Laguna Honda Hospital, the city-owned facility that is a permanent home to hundreds of elderly patients, is placing two units under quarantine and locking down the entire facility for residents as of 5 p.m. Wednesday in order to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak.
SF News Six Employees at SF's Laguna Honda Hospital Named In Patient Abuse Scandal A Department of Public Health investigation has found that 23 patients at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center were subjected to verbal and physical abuse by a group of employees over a three-year period.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Introducing UCSF's Therapy Cat, And Laguna Honda's Therapy Animal Menagerie Tucked up on Mount Sutro is a pretty amazing institution that has its roots in San Francisco's Gold Rush era, and is now one of only a few publicly owned and publicly funded
