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Berksilver: News & COVID-😷

Part of our Berksilver series collecting some of the best and most relevant news sources regarding RCFEs and the pandemic

Part of helping each other is passing news stories around we might have missed or that might give us new insight into the pandemic. This is a collection of news stories in reverse chronological order starting with industry to more general purpose news and finally Silverado’s own publications and reports.

Local Coverage

Berkeley's Silverado memory care home hit by COVID-19 outbreak among residents, staff

Silverado Berkeley Memory Care Community experiences COVID-19 outbreak

Long Term Care Industry News & Data

The California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) is an advocacy group that shares a lot of useful information about regulations for SNFs and RCFEs.

Staffer died because resident wasn't properly screened, lawsuit alleges - News - McKnight's Senior…

States Allow In-Person Nursing Home Visits As Families Charge Residents Die 'Of Broken Hearts'

CANHR COVID-19 News & Resources — CANHR Alerts, News and Resources regarding the COVID-19 Crisis.

Coronavirus / COVID-19 — McKnight’s Long Term Care News

CMS Issues Guidance to States on Reopening Nursing Homes: Universal Testing Needed to Lift…

News & reports

Continuously updated

Judith Graham

Medium: Coronavirus Blog

The Atlantic: Coronavirus: COVID-19

NYTimes: The Coronavirus Outbreak

LA Times: Alameda County coronavirus cases: Tracking the outbreak

News stories worth sharing

Stories that have come to our attention — we thought worthy of yours. Have some suggestions? Let us know.

March 2023 Update

Felony charges related to deaths at Silverado’s Beverly Place

Silverado CEO, Company Face Felony Charges Over Covid Outbreak in Case with Possible Industry…

Operators of upscale L.A. care facility charged in 14 COVID-19 deaths

Friday, October 9

'Scary': 9 dead at Watsonville nursing home amid fears of coronavirus outbreak

Tuesday, September 22

Berkeley indoor dining, nail salons could reopen under new COVID-19 tier

Thursday, September 4

Exclusive: Under pressure from relatives, SF allows outdoor nursing home visits

PDF version of the article here.

Linked Document Cloud: Department of Public Health Order No. C19–03b

Friday, August 21, 2020

Soon you can get a hair cut or go to the pool in Berkeley, with restrictions

Friday, August 14, 2020

Nursing Home Families Yearn to Visit Loved Ones Again

Thursday, August 6, 2020

'A harrowing black hole of information': Some nursing homes leave families in the dark about…

California cases flattening, says Bay Area expert - but data glitch raises doubts

Sunday, August 2, 2020

'We're missing huge amounts of data': Why we still can't track the spread of COVID-19 across the…

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Coronavirus: Outbreak at Walnut Creek nursing home leaves 12 dead, 130 infected

Thursday, July 16, 2020

7 Ways to Reduce Coronavirus Nursing Homes Deaths

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Fever checks can’t catch all Covid-19 cases. Smell tests might help

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

COVID-19 cases spike in Berkeley, Alameda County

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

California sees spike in number of cases — for second straight day

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Coronavirus live updates: As California hospitalizations hit new high, Newsom warns restrictions…

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Second COVID-19 case discovered at Elmwood Care Center — Berkeleyside

Friday, May 15, 2020

‘We’re Just Horrified’: Why a Springsteen Sideman Took On Nursing Homes

Thursday, May 14, 2020

44 Coronavirus Cases Reported In Calabasas Memory-Care Facility

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Nursing Homes Are Hot Spots in the Crisis. But Don’t Try Suing Them.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Family Believes Lack of Information Contributed to Care Facility Nurse’s Death

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

California’s race to conduct as many as 80,000 covid-19 tests every day

Monday, May 4, 2020

Families of coronavirus victims at Hayward nursing say facility left them in dark

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Erin S. Bromage, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and writes a terrific explainer about how the virus that causes COVID actually spreads.

The Risks — Know Them — Avoid Them

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Asymptomatic staff, untested at many nursing homes, are spreading the coronavirus

IGI Launches Major Automated COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Initiative — Innovative Genomics Institute…

Nursing Homes Lobby Newsom for Immunity to Lawsuits Over Virus

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

At least 40 percent of COVID-19 deaths in California are from eldercare homes, state reveals

Monday, April 27, 2020

40,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Outbreak

COVID-19 testing didn’t happen fast enough at Gordon Manor, CDC guidelines ‘not good enough,’…

Saturday, April 25, 2020

California doesn’t disclose coronavirus deaths at nursing homes

Coronavirus hits Bay Area: What residents need to know

Friday, April 24, 2020

‘Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected

Thursday, April 23, 2020

California Now Lists Coronavirus Cases In Assisted Living Communities, But Reporting Gaps Remain

Nursing homes want to be held legally blameless as coronavirus deaths spiral higher

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Kaiser is building a $14M COVID-19 lab in Berkeley to process 10,000 tests a day — Berkeleyside

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

California acknowledges more than 850 coronavirus cases in assisted-living facilities

Pandemic’s Costs Stagger the Nursing Home Industry

Monday, April 20, 2020

Nursing Homes Ordered to Disclose COVID-19 Cases, Deaths

Nursing Homes Are a Coronavirus Hotspot Claiming 6,900 Lives and Counting — KQED

Nursing homes must now report all coronavirus cases to patients’ families and the CDC

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Here’s the list of California nursing homes with COVID-19 among residents and employees

Friday, April 17, 2020

Berkeley issues strict new rules for nursing homes to prevent spread of COVID-19 — Berkeleyside

Saturday, March 28, 2020

At a nursing home for L.A.’s wealthy, coronavirus diagnoses stir anger and questions

Thursday, March 26, 2020

When Dementia Meets the Coronavirus Crisis

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Silverado — Berkeley (Public link to Facebook Page)

Silverado Corporate Statements

Silverado’s Safety Response to Coronavirus | Silverado

COVID-19 Isolation and Dementia