he sions because a few of them had been confirmed to be caring coronavirus now they tell us that they feel even more discriminated and vulnerable than ever. the deal has been signed to end armenia's war with azerbaijan and the disputed region of the going to cut a bike it comes into force right now. in armenia there is anger at the deal but russia is already sending peacekeepers to make sure the gums stay silent. my money this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. korea's congress votes to impeach president monson biscardi he's accused of accepting bribes but has denied the allegation. via twitter donald trump announces an unceremonious exit

burrs defense secretary saying he's been terminated. and president elect joe biden is still warning of a dark winter ahead after the u.s. infection count passes 10000000. a cease fire is taking effect right now off to armenia and azerbaijan reached a deal to end weeks of conflict over the disputed region of nichole macau to block i mean as prime minister was 1st to announce the news of the agreement by a statement on his facebook page he described the decision as unbelievably painful but one which had to be made. pro armenian forces had lost control of a major city in the going to cutback not far from the regional capital. the russian president vladimir putin gave more details of the cease fire. the azerbaijan

republic in the republic of armenia will stop their current positions along the contacts line in the gorno karabakh and the corridor between nagoya karabakh and the republic of armenia russian peacekeeping forces will be deployed internally displaced persons and refugees are to return to nagorno-karabakh and bordering areas under the supervision of the high commissioner of the united nations for refugees there will be an exchange of war prisoners other detainees and the change of the dead. just started the truce was announced crowds of protesters stormed the government headquarters in yet and many are calling for prime minister nicole resignation robin for sure walker is monitoring developments from tbilisi in neighboring georgia bring us up to date what's the very latest that you're hearing

. well let's start with van shall we because at the moment it looks as if large crowds have assembled. in the center of the city outside government house which is where nicole passion yeah and the prime minister's office is and we also understand that crowds took over the parliament building we saw pictures of. ordinary guys just sitting in the seats of the parliament chamber and also we've been hearing reports that one of the cabinet members the speaker sorry the speaker of parliament. was attacked by an angry mob we don't know. about his status at the moment or his whereabouts but it looks as if he was attacked and injured by by angry crowds because the reaction to this declaration of an end to the war

in armenia has been greeted with. with with what appears to be absolute disgust and despair. because i think that the armenian military the armenian thora sees may not have been giving the armenian public the picture the true picture of what was going on in the golan or care about. i think the armenian public knew that as a by john's army military capability was was immense and that they had been fighting enormous battles but i think there was there is a just a sense of disbelief that somehow this was the only option for armenia to effectively. admit defeat and to sign this agreement with azerbaijan brokered by russia that brings this war to an end. but

effectively allows azerbaijan to claim almost complete victory just in the run up to this we knew the shusha or the armenians call it had fallen or had been recaptured by. azerbaijan this was an important city symbolically culturally for azerbaijan but also of course for armenia also strategically it had it has the heights above and a short distance away from stepanovich hand candy as the as areas call it the regional capital of nagorno-karabakh so it was only a matter of time before as a by joining forces would have been able to carry out and continue their assault on that on that capital and there was a lot of talk and a lot of concern about a looming humanitarian catastrophe so if that was the price that had to be paid to

prevent this this catastrophe than that is obviously something that nickel passion and felt he needed to do it's still an early days but do we have any idea what it could mean for those people who those on meanings that live in a going to have a back. yes i think for armenians this is being more than just a war about the goal of karabakh their homeland that they consider their homeland that they call art sak this has been also an existential question for armenia because they believe that azerbaijan along with turkey intends for the elimination of armenians from kara and they sort if you like is their their last bastion of christian civilization. squeezed as they are geographically between turkey and azerbaijan and i think there's an awful lot of fear.

that that doesn't just end here and that for armenia already a small landlocked nation with its border close to 2 to turkey with its with its limited allies in the region it sees itself as being now mortally threatened by this resurgent turkish power in the region this is another thing to bear in mind that turkey supporting azerbaijan diplomatically and militarily militarily it seems has changed the balance of power in the south caucasus so they are the winners just as azerbaijan is a winner in this and also russia now coming back in with this deal this reasserts russia's influence in the region but it's a changed influence now that we have that dynamic involving turkey we don't know

just how influential turkey will remain but as a by john's president ilham aliyev has said that there will be some form of turkish military elements in this new peacekeeping scenario that is being laid out from the goal of care about although that is interesting not in the text of that statement that we've see. in between as a by john signed by azerbaijan and armenia a lot of details as well now in that statement that gives an indication of how things are going to play out you are asked me what armenians are going to do i mean you know this idea that as a but as a by john is going to be able to guarantee the safety of ethnic armenians in care about will be laughed at if it wasn't such a desperate situation for ethnic armenians because they know that the enmity between the 2 sides has been going on for so long and there is such bitter hatred

this was a there was a lot of vengeance in this. conflict by that was that began with the fighting in the 27th of september so much hatred over the years that i think i mean it is a very concerned about how they would be treated as citizens under the control of azerbaijani forces well been. developments from tbilisi in neighboring georgia many thanks all the latest fighting over that disputed region began as we were hearing there on the morning of september 27th the region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan according to 4 u.n. security council resolutions but not going to cut a bike has been run by ethnic armenians since the war in 1994 hundreds of thousands of their ease were displaced during the conflict. asama binge of aid sent us this update from the as area capital bucko. well we've been hearing from the azerbaijani

president who's been congratulating his nation giving out the details and saying this essentially is a capitulation by the armenian forces it has been an eventful night to say the least this is a night which started off with hearing from the armenian side can admitting that they have lost the important city of. overlooks the capital but this. which is known as fun in the in azerbaijan we've also seen escalation from both sides saying that there were multiple rocket attacks armenians and azerbaijanis saying that they're defending their positions of trying to make sure that they hold the territory that they have and then in the wee hours of the night you heard from the armenian prime minister announcing the deal and then it is being confirmed by both the kremlin and now video conference that happened between the 3 leaders has

been played on there by jonny state t.v. in the in these in these was when this was happening there was also a helicopter which was shot down by azerbaijani forces on the border between. an autonomous zone near turkey and iran and azerbaijan which was a russian helicopter to servicemen died one was injured and the azerbaijanis were quick to apologize and say that they were sending their condolences to those crews who lost their lives and were ready to offer compensation to the russians but all of this has been overshadowed by this announcement that the conflict in nagorno-karabakh is almost over the azerbaijani president saying that the important parts of it is this deal are that the armenians are going to be handing back at least 3 more territories peacefully to or by johnny forces from the outskirts of them to go in a car bomb region the are as a bridge are the forces are not going to contin. there are advantages to words of

the capital there is going to be a core a door which is going to be established in the national monotone of a sawn between other by john and nagorno-karabakh and there is also going to be peacekeeping centers there is also talk about the turks taking part in all of this as well the azerbaijani president saying that there's going to be a presence of turkish forces here as well. breaking news coming in from peru where the congress has voted to impeach the president martin vest karr is accused of accepting bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that one public work contracts the vote to impeach him came during his 2nd congressional trial in less than 2 months arianna sanchez reports. he came to power unexpectedly martin b. sky was sworn in as paid his president in 2013 after this republican stepped down

amid allegations of corruption now after a tumultuous time in office he's got a has been ousted. no makers accuse him of moral incapacity for allegedly receiving more than $630000.00 in bribes to public works when he was a governor in southern region of martin these guys said there was absolutely no proof of the allegations and denied any wrongdoing getting them i have my head apart you know very well that i never run away i hold in my hands the augments for the truth less than 2 months ago visco the survived a previous attempt to remove him over claims he interfered in a corruption investigation in september before the 1st impeachment trial the government filed a lawsuit at the constitutional tribunal to clarify what moral incapacity means according to the constitution but the justices said they will not have an answer before december allowing lawmakers to make their own interpretation of the law

analysts say lawmakers have undermined political system if you know. this is the end of the mock receive for our country we have turned into a banana republic where the rule of law is a joke and lawmakers think they can on see a president just because they are votes. after confronting some of the worst political upheaval in recent history 7 cabinets changed at least 60 ministers resigned he's got to decide congress last year and then attempt to push forward political education reforms used. evidently this created a great animosity on the traditional political class toward president his car who didn't have a party and in peru when a president is orphaned of political support in congress the rule has been that those governments and really bad with the coup to touch him he's got a foot congress and if the worst health and economic crisis in for more than 100

years to the end he maintained he was the victim of an opposition plot following his own efforts to introduce anti corruption reforms arianna sanchez is live for us now in the capital marianna was this result expected. i think i can say yes or no just a few days ago members leaders of several parties have said that they would not vote in favor of the impeachment and given the fact that just less than 2 months ago there was an impeachment proceedings for the same reason corruption allegations against a precedent which didn't get enough votes so it was unexpected that he actually the lawmakers passed. this impeachment however it is very clear

that the president has made many enemies throughout his to want to have years or nearly 3 years in office he closed congress he made reforms. against to fight corruption and so he made many enemies i think the president president i think he's got i had trusted that 78 percent of peruvians had said expressed in a recent opinion polls that they thought that he should stay until the end of his tenure in july of next year to have general elections in april and asked to the people were saying and after that well then he can be prosecuted which is what the law says about the precedent however one thing that played against the president is the fact that constitutional tribunals the justices the constitutional tribunal did not give an answer to

a lawsuit presented by the president before the 1st impeachment proceedings in which he asked the justices explain to peruvians clarify what is moral. or passage which is the reason why. why these lawmakers have have been able to pass this this vote against president to discover mariani gene i want to hear and they haven't given the answer. and marianna can you tell us what's going to happen next who is likely to be the next president. will the next step president has to be sworn in that would be that will be if things go planned right now the congress president. he would be sworn in tomorrow. tuesday at 5 pm but we are waiting for martin discovered to speak we will see if he accepts this is

not sure what would happen if he doesn't but many things can happen in peru so we don't know if if if he will not accept this this result what we can definitely see is if this goes through many. congressman lawmakers that will be shielded from a prosecution $68.00 of them according to president bush have to discover are being investigated for corruption they will continue to be shielded they will have immunity and i think that we can also expect people from allies of i think this kind of people on the streets perhaps in the next few hours because people support it might be discovered as i was saying to stay until july of next year many thanks for that money and our son chaz live for us in the capital lima. to the

u.s. now and a nation caught in a political stalemate and legal wrangling over the outcome of choose days presidential election in the past our attorney general william barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the country to investigate allegations of voting irregularities if there is credible evidence the drum campaign has also filed lawsuits in pennsylvania among other battleground states to try and stop the vote count the president is still refusing to concede defeat on his campaign has provided little evidence to substantiate their claims of voter fraud let's go to allan fisher's live for us in washington d.c. allan give us a bit more detail about what the u.s. attorney general has said and what should we read into it. well i had a meeting with mitch mcconnell who's the leader of the republicans in the senate

earlier today then issued this statement there's 2 ways of looking at this 1st of all bill barr is essentially backing up the claims from the republicans that there was widespread fraud which is why he has announced that there should be an investigation there are other saying he's not quite buy into it by saying there has to be substantial allegations of fraud with a warning to the department of justice and also to investigators not to chase fanciful or farfetched ideas now we know that the republican party has launched a number of court actions but in none of them not one of them do they allege that there is widespread fraud what they're doing particularly in pennsylvania is saying that there has been a breach of people's constitutional rights they filed a new motion they're saying that there has been a violation of equal access between democratic counties and republican counties and also a violation of equal protection now by coaching it in constitutional terms they are hoping that if this course through the process and they don't get

a court to rule in their favor this could actually be taken on by the supreme court just in mind everyone the supreme court doesn't automatically take court action what it actually does is a bench really decide whether or not it's going to listen to a court if it believes it has widespread impact killing mcanany who is the white house press secretary well she was at a public a news conference a few hours ago she said she was there acting as a private citizen that's because if you take political action well in your official role taxpayer funded press secretary you could be in violation of the hot checks so i want to make it clear this was her speaking personally she said that she alleged with any basis that the democrats welcomed fraud and illegal votes simply not the case what is interesting is that the democrat. republicans keep pushing forward with this idea and just in the last half hour or so don't trump obviously the

election still on his mind he has tweeted the fact that the fact that pfizer the drug company which said it may have a vaccine which is 90 percent efficient he said the only doing that no because they wanted to damage his hopes of reelection so it's not just the voters is the drug companies as well that appear to be involved in the conspiracy as far as donald trump sees it and what what has the biden camp if anything said in response to the statement by the attorney general. how are they going to read this. nothing official yet. i mean they're not a vest to the idea of these things being investigated but their view is that all the data points to a joe biden when all the gaps in all the states are almost the reverse of what happened with donald trump 4 years ago when the media announced that the data

pointed to donald trump winning people accepted it and they moved on that is a concern that there are no are actually moving forward with the transition the reason that there is laws in place for the transition is because if there is an incident like $911.00 that has to be a smooth transition of power so it can be easily dealt with and the biden campaign is concerned that that's not happening everything being held up by donald trump simply saying he doesn't accept the result of the selection of the lewis who sees moving towards acceptance there's no sign on the face of it that he's close to that at the moment many thanks for that allan fish for us live in washington d.c. thanks. after months of speculation about the relationship between donald trump and his defense section 8 ma casper has been sacked via twitter trump tweeted that he had been terminated as spend trauma collided over white house pressure to deploy federal troops during nationwide protests against racism and police brutality as

also attracted anger by effectively banning the display of confederate symbols in military installations and had been reported esper prepared a resignation letter anticipating the inevitable but he poured cold water on that in an interview with the military times publication last week saying my soldiers don't get to quit so if i have to quit it better be over something really really big now as alan referred to the american drug maker 5 has released interim results which show its vaccine is clearly effective in preventing covert 19 it's been welcomed by scientists and world leaders and triggered a surge on global markets the vaccine developed by pfizer and the german startup biotech was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing covert 19 among study participants no serious safety concerns were observed among the more

than $43000.00 participants across the globe the study showed just 94 confirmed cases of covert 19 among the participants the news has been called a great day for science and humanity and while the w.h.o. says the results are very positive it has added that there is still a lot of work to be done charlie angelo reports. $1300000000.00 doses by the end of the year that's the claim from drug makers pfizer and biotech after announcing their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective theirs is the 1st successful data from a large scale clinical trial and widespread vaccinations could roll out by the end of december following an application for an emergency use approval from regulators within weeks german company biotech admit they're still waiting on more results to further prove its safety. it's true that this type of medication has no

approval yet which is why we're carrying out this compatibility study with more than 40000 test persons to find out if there is any intolerance even a rare one what we can prove with this study is that the vaccine is compatible and that side effects are mild to moderate and that there are no severe side effects the news of the vaccine sent global stock markets soaring scientists welcome the news of the 90 percent effectiveness much higher than been expected but also raised questions we have to know who received it in vaccine in this 1st trial and. evaluate if this sometimes dick results could be extended also to add the populations which are matched more than in needs to relax in the they mean all the people people with. who are at risk of severe infections and probably were not included in the 1st trial you know as the world health organizations decision making body met in

a largely virtual conference questioned already being raised about how any vaccine would be distributed especially to developing countries the world has come together as never before to usually slice amy into result of devil or fraud and i'm not going to be fairly as lot with. not private communities that people are why and what reasons i'm p. . left behind 1200000 people have now died of the virus and more than 50000000 people have courted 10000000 of them in the u.s. but the pandemic shows no signs of abating with hungry in portugal the latest countries in europe to reimpose strict measures the assembly did have one reason to celebrate the victory of joe biden means the u.s. will be reestablishing its relationship with the w.h.o. after trouble for many began withdrawing in july the funding the u.s. brings is key as the organization revealed although the world's expectations of the

w.h.o. have grown dramatically the budget hasn't. president-elect joe biden is urging americans to put partisan politics aside and wear masks as the u.s. record more than $10000000.00 coronavirus and factions biden has unveiled a task force to combat the outbreak and it includes doctors public health experts and scientists he says the nation is edging towards a very dark winter this group. and detailed plans built on a bedrock of science and we keep compassion empathy and care for every american added score this election is over time to put aside the pardon the partisanship and the rhetoric that designed to demonize one. it's time to end the politicization of basic responsible probably kill steps might mask social distancing. sile has more from wilmington delaware which is joe biden's home state. shortly

after president elect joe biden announce who would be heading up his covert task force he also emphasized that again the importance for americans to wear a mosque some $10000000.00 americans have now been. tested positive for the virus this after that breakthrough in the vaccine obviously what the president elect has emphasized is that he will be making this pandemic his priority but there is little he can do until he is sworn in on john are you trying to have 2021 meanwhile as he tries to build his transitional team and tries to put together other blueprints for policies that hugh hopes he'll be able to implement as soon as he is sworn into office he's been faced with another challenge the general services administration which is essentially the human resources department of the u.s. government its head has refused to release millions of dollars that would otherwise be made available for any transitional team to be able to pay salaries hire staff

and do other things that would help it's on its way to. a transition essentially this is. this is the head of the general services administration is actually a political appointee so she was put into that position by current president donald trump there was no real surprise that she has rejected this however she has come under a lot of criticism for doing so what biden is hoping however is that ultimately this latest hard to will be overcome as he has stated after speaking with canadian prime minister justin trudeau and others that he has a lot of big plans in terms of policies that he wishes to introduce essentially hitting the ground running come john really the 20th. and money in sight with the headlines on al-jazeera he is area president has

confirmed his country signed a deal to end the fighting in the goal mcadam back the agreement with armenia and russia will see nearly 80000 russian peacekeepers deployed to the to speciate region some of binge of aid has more from bucko. the other brazilian president saying that the board and part of it is the are that the armenians are going to be handing back at least 3 more territories peacefully to or by johnny forces from the outskirts of the begonia car bomb region the our other bridge already forces are not going to continue their advance towards the capital there is going to be a corridor orbit is going to be established in the national one upon a thorn between azerbaijan and nagorno-karabakh and there is also going to be peacekeeping said there is also talk about the turks taking part in all of this as well but just after the agreement was made public crowds of protesters stormed the armenian government headquarters in your van many are calling for prime minister

nicole resignation in peru the congress has voted to impeach the president martin vizcaya who is accused of accepting bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that won public works contracts he has denied any wrongdoing u.s. attorney general william barr has authorized federal prosecutors to pursue investigations into alleged voting irregularities but in a lesser 2 prosecutors he asked them not to chase claims that a fanciful or farfetched. and the u.s. president has fired his defense secretary donald trump says mark esper will be replaced by the head of the counterterrorism center christopher miller those are your headlines coming up next faultlines. we understand the differences i'm similarities have cultures across the world. so no matter what you

see al-jazeera will bring you the needs and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. i cried every single day going home i cried before i even got to the house and my son wouldn't see me i don't want to see that i have so much wood i'm pretty sure he felt in the early months of the pen demick jessica duran worked as a housekeeper at a nursing home in california it had one of the worst coded 1000 breaks in the area i had to go out in quarantine in my brother's garage. and hear her because i heard my son on the other side of the door. say i just want to sleep with you are just you don't hug and i couldn't. i couldn't do that all i can just text them i'm here right here i love you i'll be ok you'll be ok and.

that's the thing that scared me the most is i was going to bring something into my family. when the pandemic hit the us nursing homes became ground 0 for the virus as of october more than 55000 nursing home residents have died we have a tradition of very poor infection control in these facilities and i think what it comes down to is we don't treat older folks the way we treat others and we don't value their lives as much that's that's been evidenced in the pandemic in california nearly 115 years in home workers have died jessica was afraid she would bring the virus home to the young son who suffers from asthma so she quit in may but still thinks about the elderly residents she left behind i was still dream about them and some of them just screaming and then there are some of them down walking down the hall saying how. and some of you like i just want water and until this day i even asked i wonder if they're still there. california was one of

the states hardest hit by the coronavirus and nearly a 3rd of its death toll came from nursing homes. fault lines. investigates how an already troubled nursing home industry imploded under the weight of the pandemic i think it says that in many instances we put profit of book patient care. but isn't that the american way. bakersfield is a city in the heart of california's central valley when we went there in mid august it was one of the worst coronavirus hot spots in the country. according to the california department of public health there have been multiple deaths due to cope and 19 at the kingston health care center here in bakersfield in early may nearly half of the cases here came from the nursing home where jessica worked kingston health care center 9 residents of the facility have died so far making up for 60

percent of the total close it 19 deaths in the county. when kobe hit. you had been a resident at kingston for nearly 20 years he was very stubborn and he had roles for us all the time. but he was a good man he was good to us he provided the farm labor on his life and he started having many strokes. i just got worse every. let's say for a year and a half and then eventually i had to put a man on. minerva and her daughter and jellicoe would visit gonzalo every day until the lockdown in march purana virus came around and i couldn't visit so we did face time but every single day that i was saying to him he was either a minister's gal laying in bed all day long sometimes i found him dirty. and i just broke my heart to see all that because they just fared well the daughter's not

coming on anymore you know she's not going to complain. i just wanted him to be clean. that's all i asked for has to be cleaned and him being fed. tested positive for cocaine 1000 in late april there you are going nowhere. now. this was the last time angelica spoke to her grandfather. once and. i said i don't know i'm going to put on by his coming home. and then i saw. a bunch of bed. i say you get better and. he said ok. he died less than

a month after he became sick. 18 other kingston residents also died of corona virus and more than 100 residents and 60 workers were infected i just want to know what happened where what went wrong. why why did he go through all the based on what i know it strikes me as you know you've got a lot of people doing close proximity to each other and you have inadequate staffing and at least in the initial stages you had staff that were even provided with p.p.d. that sounds like a recipe for an outbreak in some ways the outbreak at kingston and other nursing homes all over the u.s. is a reflection of everything that went wrong with the country's handling of the pandemic a lack of personal protective equipment contact tracing and widespread testing feel to the crisis the thing that really went wrong in the united states and actually most of the world was a lack of recognition of the fact that this virus is absolutely

deadly. to older adults but more specifically to older adults who live in congregate senior housing but for nursing homes like kingston the problems go beyond the federal response it was spreading you know it was like a fire in there basically and it was not not contained at all they tried but a lot with a lot of failure and then you had the health department come in same different things but they failed their you know to give us the right information on how to use that little bit of p.p. that we did have. so that's what we were and then struggling to keep everything clean and sanitized that's what we were dealing with it was almost like a nightmare you kind of wake up from we didn't know what to do and we were scared for our families we were scared or scared of bringing something home though or

given us mass that we will have to use 4 or 5 days saying it's ok even though i will look it up and i would tell my manager on my supervisor this is not right we're not supposed to it's fine just leave it in the sun it's fine there was a lot of negligence on their part management supervision you're telling your staff you know you're nursing staff that this is how we're going to do it no i didn't do that and was there supervision or management or anyone continuously on these people no do you think this facility was prepared for a covert 1000 now. why do you think there were so many cases at euston i don't know i just. think. they just didn't know that it would spread like an. kingston is on a government short list of the worst nursing homes in the country it's been flagged

for having a history of serious issues with patient care facilities 'd with poor track records preparing demick have had worse outbreaks then the facilities there with a better track record so i mean nothing really that surprising facilities that are as equipped to do good infection control did worse with infection control with covert 19. so these are all of the complaints. filed against kingston in just one year this year 2020 state inspectors cited kingston 39 times for health violations more than 4 times the national average there was a lot of mismanagement it goes down to when i would be cleaning my showers there would be fecal matter you know and just left so when these people you know nursing they would take the president there shower you know you're supposed to rinse it off you know it was just a lot of things like that and then you had residents that were digging you know excuse me i mean big game you know in their pamper it's because it's

a natural instinct to try to clean yourself because they're waiting for so long there and waves i've seen that you know so many times there. kingston has lower than average near staffing levels according to federal records experts and advocates we spoke to said that understaffing is a chronic problem in the industry kingston is a for profit facility as use about 70 percent of the school nursing facilities in the united states and so how's that facility able to generate a profit we have to cut back on stuff and it's the only way mack clark is an attorney in bakersfield whose firm has filed multiple lawsuits against kingston over the years i think that there's one answer to what amounts to really 2 questions right why have they had so many citations and why were the epicenter why would they the epicenter of the covert outbreak at least for a period of time in cook county inadequate stuff that's always the the answer that there's not enough staff to meet the needs of the residents they don't get fed as

much staff that are in a hurry a lot of times make more errors so there's more medication errors they cut corners things don't get done and people die as a result. minerva says conditions at kingston worsened after he changed ownership they took turns visiting gonzalo every day my biggest. pick with them was my dad having faeces and his bell so i asked the nurses you can see his hands filthy oh the night shift got him up this morning but you guys don't even wash their face or their hands she goes oh well make sure next time it's not ok maybe a day would go ok and then you weren't feeling the same thing again it was all the time. despite these problems kingston gets millions of dollars from government health care programs like medicaid and medicare to take in residence

including low income patients like on salo do i have a system i want to put my parents on you know. i mean if you're filthy rich there's a working elder care system private pays system that i think is probably sufficient but for everyone else no. and we know there's only going to be more elderly people coming down the pipeline. in my opinion it's a completely broken system if it's broken who do you think is accountable i think that owners of your soon homes. at least in the for profit or. how the right the ownership of these things the way it's structured it's like an onion and you've got to peel back the layers you know be another layer in the new peel back a layer and there's another layer and to get to the center and almost never. we wanted to know who's in charge of kingston. want to ari you have reached a number that is connected or no longer. and we were intending much luck in

bakersfield to hear your recorded error. try your call again actually this is pretty amazing these are all the numbers we've called and we haven't been able to reach anyone. so we travel to one of los angeles's wealthiest neighborhoods beverly hills to the home of a man we've been trying to reach for several weeks and. he's listed by the state as kingston's owner dr david silver. doesn't look like there's anyone here but we did find out about silvers other job he's the c.e.o. of the largest nursing home management company in california rockport health care services security told us we can't go in without an appointment we've been calling the office number to try to get an appointment so it's kind of like a catch 22. we found rock courts previous c.e.o.

dr michael wasserman a low dr wasserman how are you. thank you so much for your time i was told that i would be running the company. along the short was that wasn't true. took me 15 months to figure it out. so it's complicated it is comp and it's done deliberately so. i believe so. and the challenge is there's typically multiple ownership players the lawyers do it that way so that the real estate honest will say we don't have anything to do with operations so things go wrong it's not our fault i think what we're really going to have to look at. is what kind of influence do the real estate owners have on operations we took a closer look at kingston's records kingston rents the property from shlomo reckon

it's or to be precise from one of his many companies the l.a. businessman employs rockport healthcare services to manage his nursing home empire hi francisco this is melissa thanks for taking my call we called a researcher at the national union of health care workers they've been investigating reckon it's 4 years and a lot is offering up the same or talking nursing home operators and all of these changing years it's all about layers of basically themselves got into the 1st of the leaders of legal liability or regulatory oversight or a number to use so when kingston pays the monthly rent whose owner is david silver . who is he paying to please the shop owner. woke up short of all restaurants and what motivates you would prompt you to give to some schlomo reckon it's is a celebrated philanthropist and community leader but his nursing homes have a trouble track record. in 2014 then state attorney general kamel harris called him

a serial violator of nursing home laws he's been sued at least 15 times for issues of negligence elder abuse and wrongful death in his nursing homes the issue with the nursing home industry is the pressure that the owners of the nursing home real estate. put on the facilities and when the pressure to make money and fill beds. overrides. the the need the desire the mission to provide quality care and do the right thing that's when you get poor quality outcomes. that profit motive came into play during the pandemic last year a change in government reimbursement policy allowed to sing homes to get more money for new patients the cording to reports these facilities could get at least 600

dollars more per day for covert patient at that time you got to remember a lot of people weren't going to hospitals for routine services recruiting surgeries so the nursing homes were depleted of a lot of their normal. pathway to residence so they had to be creative if they wanted to continue to make a lot of money and taking coburn 1000 patients probably seem like a good idea advocates say this encourages newsy homes to engage in a profit making scheme known as dumpy or discharging some residents in favor of more profitable once it's been happening at nursing homes around the country and it's really based on who's paying for the care and where can the nursing home make more money it's not supposed to be. the facilities are not supposed to engage in that actually we have filed lawsuits over dumping successfully litigated lawsuits over dumping does that mean it doesn't happen i was all taught in the last few months it's picked up again we've heard of residents being sent to motels residents

being sent to homeless shelters lots of residents being sent to unlicensed facilities where there's no care being provided it's really just room and board and use conical if you will dimension or. and just roll the wanderer that's what daryl kennedy says happened to his 89 year old uncle r.c. kendrick r.c. had been a resident at the lakeview terrace nursing home in los angeles for about a year in early april got a call from another facility saying that they had his uncle that's what i don't know about in chile so the next morning he walked up. to learn to walk or he would be back and. you can come back on the bus and therefore you know. then he got

a call from the police. contacted me through the pool filter on the fruit. confused and big interest looking for food in order it's a disgusting practice when it occurs we're talking about the most volatile people in our society and they're entitled to the same dignity and respect and certainly the same health care recuperative care as anyone in our community but it's always worked out that way the city is suing make the terrorists over allegations that they're dumping patients during the pandemic who do you hold accountable for all of this i will say led you to your. review was that you know. negatives is. done in the literature and i would like to prove the truth of. we reached out to the primary owner of lake you terrorist you who are high may

actually speak to you who. he told us we were wasting his time and would not answer our questions if. lakefield has a history of dumping in 2019 the city settled a lawsuit with the facility for illegally addicting patients who were homeless or had mental health challenges and in the immediate aftermath of that settlement things appear to get better but then we allege the thing is to not get better in fact they got worse. we wondered why nursing homes with poor track records were allowed to keep operating so we went to talk to molly davies who investigates elder care complaints for los angeles county so what we've seen is that the regulatory enforcement system favors the industry above consumers and that is precisely the opposite of what it is designed to do citations are a drop in the bucket to the amount of money the industry can make by.

cutting corners on staffing why do you think some nursing homes with bad track records continue to get me licensed i think because the regulatory enforcement system feels like they're in iraq and a hard place there are only so many operators. they don't want to lose nursing home beds because. nursing home beds are growing there you know people aren't building nursing homes the problem you have is if we start closing them down where we're going to put the old people. which is why public health looks the other way. robert dorn grandmother delores was a resident a country below westwick a nursing home in los angeles robert alleges that in october 2018 the facility removed her bed rails despite knowing she was at risk of falling i never followed complaint but that welled up what i had to do. now because this is life and death. no. i knew she was going to fall out of the bed. 2 weeks later his mother fell

and hit her head on the nightstand she was on life support for nearly a month. and. i was by her side i held her hand because i promised her i will hold her hand until the vilest. stop the. killing. and then she and i. robert is suing the facility which is also owned by shlomo reckon it's the nursing home magnate the lawsuit claims that the nursing home was understaffed and the people who did work there didn't have proper training they say this was an attempt to cut labor costs and increase profits it's all about profit because labor is your biggest. gift right. or your dollars and it's the lot of your going to cut it always sure it was better for them so you start spreading things around where you

don't get things in place like that little building or just basic things could have catastrophic results in 20 years of practicing elder abuse law mike moran has worked on a number of fragments cases have serious o.b. nuns concerns about ocean level approaches you know sure business people who. want to have a business of taking your dog would meet with them for. i think. after dolores's death country villa westwood was fined at least $20000.00 by the department of public health shell more reckon it's continues to own and operate the facility he didn't respond to a repeated requests point interview or a comment. i never got a phone call from the country villa. expressing we're sorry for what happened. it's like. another day for business. that anyone has

a loved one a day you are thinking about putting it definitely find out who owns the business how's the business set up. go to a lawyer work in reverse. the problem has always been and foresman so the the results of violating the regulations is often very minimal punishment or no punishment at all. we asked the california department of public health operators with troubled track records continue getting we licensed they said each application is considered on its own basis and that their office conducts comprehensive investigations into complaints. as for kingston we eventually heard back from dr david silver he said they've been working closely with the state health department and as of september they had no new covert cases for 3 months.

i believe that years in years of. an industry that his functioned as a business and not as a deliverer of quality health care. has led to a lot of bad happens. so every dollar that is spent on that real estate is not being spent on direct patient care there's just a level of acceptance for putting older people onto an island and casting them away from the rest of society that would not be tolerated with any other group. and i think that that's just a mainly a result of ages on and really poor government monitoring. if this pandemic isn't enough to sort of change the culture of the way we do policy for older folks in this country then than probably nothing is ever going to do it the problem being without oversight all we're going to see is the total number of deaths and the

total number of deaths are going to be quite frightening once we finally know what they actually have been with nursing homes would be calm this country's killing fields. because of in 1000 pandemic has exposed deep cracks in the u.s. elder care system. raising questions of whether some nursing homes could profits over patient care. will growing older the whole world growing older. and how we take care of the elderly. tells us what kind of people will ya.

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