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L.A. nursing home 'dumped' residents to bring in lucrative COVID patients, authorities say

By Los Angeles Times
| March 02, 2021

A nursing home accused of illegally "dumping" patients onto city streets and into ill-equipped homes in order to take in more lucrative COVID-19 patients will nearly double its nursing staff, allow increased oversight and pay $275,000 in penalties and costs to settle a lawsuit brought by the Los Angeles city attorney's office.

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