SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The deadline to shut a nursing home administered by the town of San Francisco has again been prolonged after city and federal regulators reached an agreement that enables the embattled facility to proceed caring for patients, officials announced.
Laguna Honda was set to shut on Sept. 13 but federal officials in August agreed to increase the deadline to Nov. 13.
On Wednesday, local, state and federal officials said in a joint statement that the deadline has been prolonged until Nov. 13, 2023.
In April, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services terminated its payments to Laguna Honda after two patients had nonfatal overdoses at the ability in 2021, and inspectors with the California Department of Public Health declared it to be “in a state of substandard care.”
As a part of the brand new agreement, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu will drop the town’s lawsuit as and three appeals he filed to overturn the decertification of the 156-year-old facility.
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“Laguna Honda will proceed to work on quality improvement efforts while aiming to reapply to take part in Medicare and/or Medicaid. Moreover, transfers and discharges of current residents will remain paused until February 2, 2023,” officials said within the joint statement.
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