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For months, families have pined to see their loved ones who live in California’s skilled nursing facilities, which have been shut down to outside visitors to keep the coronavirus from spreading. California health authorities recently issued guidance for visits to resume, but few are happening as infection rates surge in many communities. Facilities are being cautious after many suffered severe outbreaks earlier in the pandemic. Read more › Author: Associated Press · Publication: Los Angeles Times · Date: July 12, 2020

We are profiling the McKnight’s 2020 Women of Distinction honorees daily through the program’s July 28 online awards ceremony. Read more › Author: Lois A. Bowers · Publication: McKnight's Senior Living · Date: June 29, 2020

In Capital & Main, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Noah Marco and Eisenberg Village Medical Director Dr. Michael Wasserman discuss the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s preparation for an uptick of COVID-19 cases. They also note the ongoing concern of COVID-19 testing deficiencies in nursing homes. Read more › Author: Dan Ross · Publication: Capital & Main · Date: June 16, 2020

The Los Angeles Daily News reported that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti shared progress on a city initiative expanding testing capacity at nursing homes, during a media briefing held in front of the Home’s Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Medical Center. The Daily News also reported that the Jewish Home’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Noah Marco addressed testing efforts within Los Angeles Jewish Health specifically and in general for skilled nursing facilities during the briefing. Read more › Author: · Publication: · Date: May 19, 2020

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Effort to keep seniors' spirits up in the midst of the stress and worry caused by the coronavirus pandemic has sparked innovation in residential care facilities and among volunteers who participate in twice-weekly phone calls with isolated elderly members of the Los Angeles community. At the Los Angeles Jewish Home residents are treated to international theme events with corresponding foods and costumed staff, said Larissa Stepanians, its chief operating officer. Read more › Author: City News Service · Publication: KFI AM 640 · Date: April 28, 2020

At the Jewish Home Family facilities, staff vital signs are monitored for each shift three times a day. Everyone wears disposable coveralls; masks are available for people going into rooms with infected patients. The Jewish Home Family was very aggressive about stocking up on protective equipment early, Elliott says Read more › Author: Deborah Quilter · Publication: Forbes · Date: April 17, 2020

Dr. Noah Marco, chief medical officer of the Los Angeles Jewish Home, was in a meeting with facility leadership on Wednesday when the federal guidance for facilities to concerning the Coronavirus landed in his email. “And I said, ‘Hey, guess what I just got.’ And we immediately started our planning process.” Read more › Author: Maria L. La Ganga, Richard Read · Publication: Los Angeles Times · Date: March 8, 2020

The Los Angeles Jewish Home (LAJH) has opened the Brandman Research Institute, which is focused on research for geriatric health issues best practices. Noah Marco, M.D., Chief Medical Officer for Los Angeles Jewish Health, is the institute’s executive director, and the hope is to let medial staff learn directly from seniors. Activities will include research and treatments to enhance medical, social, psychiatric and psychological services for elders. Read more › Author: Elizabeth Newman · Publication: McKnight's Long-Term Care News · Date: March 20, 2019

The high cost of long-term care is a growing problem for this government program. Donna Nickerson spent her last working years as the activity and social services director at a Turlock, Calif., nursing home. But when she developed Alzheimer’s disease and needed that kind of care herself, she and her husband couldn’t afford it: a bed at a nearby home cost several thousand dollars a month. Read more › Author: Barbara Feder Ostrov and Anna Gorman · Publication: Money Magazine · Date: July 29, 2016

Although hospice and death are inextricably linked in many people’s minds, hospice experts insist that it is life — not death — on which their work centers. Specifically, the goal of hospice is to improve a patient’s quality of life, even though, and especially when, that life is nearing its end. Hospice care has been available in the United States for nearly half a century, yet there are still many misconceptions about what it entails. We’ve checked in with several local experts to address some of the most common fallacies and fears about hospice. Read more › Author: Lakshna Mehta · Publication: Jewish Journal · Date: July 21, 2016