January 23, 2023

California Department of Public Health
Twelve State Citations LHH Received on December 20, 2022

For convenience, the 12 citations Laguna Honda Hospital received as a result of deaths of former LHH residents transferred to other facilities during the “LHH Closure Plan” before the mandatory transfers and discharges were temporarily paused on July 28, 2022 are available below.

They were assessed “Class B” fines of $3,000 each, for a total of $36,000 in penalties.

State Penalty Number and
Enforcement Action Narrative		 Patient
Number		 Age Gender Transfer
Date		 Date
Died		 # of days
Before
Died		 Type of
Receiving Facility
1

220018216

 3 84 Male 6/10/2022 7/16/2022 36 SNF
2

220018217

 11 95 Female 6/23/2022 7/9/2022 16 SNF
3

220018218

 24 93 Female 7/5/2022 7/24/2022 19 SNF
4 220018220 17 71 Male 6/30/2022 8/24/2022 55 SNF
5 220018221 5 100 Female 6/10/2022 7/7/2022 27 SNF
6 220018223 38 77 Male 6/17/2022 7/30/2022 43 SNF
7 220018224 39 79 Male 7/8/2022 7/25/2022 17 SNF
8 220018225 7 79 Male 6/21/2022 7/1/2022 10 SNF
9 220018226 31 68 Female 7/13/2022 7/24/2022 11 SNF
10 220018227 2 79 Male 6/10/2022     SNF
11 220018228 53 63 Male 6/23/2022 7/17/2022 24 Medical Respite
12 220018229 21 87 Female 7/1/2022 9/6/2022 67 SNF
Average: 81.25 29.55

 

Source:  California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Cal Health Find database citations; downloaded on  1/11/20.

The citations are posted on CDPH’s Cal Health Find web page.  To access them, type “Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Ctr D/P SNF” in the “Facility Name” search field (or select the second listing in the drop-down list for LHH including “D/P SNF” in the second entry) and press the green “Search” button.  

In the subsequent screen, click on the white hyperlink in the black box to the right of the map of Midtown Terrace.  Select the green “View Details” button in the box that replaces the black box.  On the resulting screen, scroll down and select the blue “View Details” button below the “Enforcement Actions” label on the right-hand side.  On the next screen, click on the “2022” tab.  Scroll all the way down in the list of 12 citations, and slide the horizontal elevator bar all the way to the right. 

To download citations one by one, click on a file number in the “Survey Findings” column to open the citation.  After it loads, click on the miniature ”printer” icon below the blue Cal Find Health Database banner, and select “PDF” from the drop-down options list.  That will open the PDF file in a new window to either print the file or download it to your computer.

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