Video: Saving The Lives of Our Own - The First Year
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SAVE THE DATE! OCT. 5
On the evening of October 5, you are cordially invited to join your fellow Saving the Lives of Our Own members and the NEO Ensemble Theatre in celebrating and raising awareness of the Motion Picture Home residents and our challenge to keep the doors of the nursing home open now, and for the future. "1 Voice, an Evening of Monologues, Moments and Memories" is an evening of music, comedy and monologues that embraces our treasured elderly by sending a message to those who would deny the future of Long Term Care on the MPTF campus, and the credo of "We Take Care of Our Own". The pending closure of the Motion Picture Home's nursing home in Woodland Hills has rocked the world of many of our most senior performers and studio workers. This is an evening for and about them, and how we will all look ahead to our own futures. Our goal as always is to protect the rights of the residents, return the facility to its once world-class reputation, and to keep the doors of the long term care and acute care facility open for them, for you, and for the future of the motion picture and television industry healthcare. Please join us. When: October 5, 2010 - 7:30 p.m. [ + ] for more information, please click
Shameful! California Public Health Survey Finds MPTF Broke State & Federal Laws Deadline Hollywood This is a summary of the just released California Department Of Public Health inspection of the Motion Picture & Television Fund's skilled nursing facility completed on June 4, 2010. The advocacy group Saving The Lives Of Our Own, which has been fighting the closing of the long-term care hospital and nursing home, compiled this summary and also has posted the full report. Illegal Transfers After announcing its plan to close the facility, the Motion Picture Home moved dozens of its residents to other facilities without notifying any of the residents of their transfer and discharge rights – including their right to appeal the transfers – in violation of California and federal laws. The Home also failed to comply with its own relocation plan, which required it to provide 30 days advance written notice to residents and their representatives prior to any transfers initiated pursuant to the closure. According to CDPH’s report, the Motion Picture Home’s Director of Social Services and Vice-President of Professional Services admitted that none of the transferred residents were notified of their rights. Prior to closure, California law requires nursing homes to develop and implement relocation plans in order to protect elderly residents from transfer trauma. (Note: Many of the transferred residents have since died.) [ + ] see the article here
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Dr. David Tillman: When asked if $250 million would save Long Term Care, Tillman responded: "no amount of money will keep it open". If $250 million can't keep Long Term Care open, money isn't the issue.
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Seth Ellis:: "We want this campus to be a place for elders to live their best lives; not a place that looks at sickness but looks at the key ingredients of successful aging." Sickness is a fact of the human condition. It's shocking that Nurse Ellis wants an MPTF that discriminates against the sick and elderly.
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Ken Scherer: To his credit, when questioned about the deliberate placement of a fake police car in the MPTF parking lot causing distress to elderly residents and family members, Scherer admitted that management's tactic was "not a good idea." MPTF intimidation of the sick and vulnerable reveals its moral and ethical bankruptcy.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg: His response to the impassioned backlash against the planned eviction of MPTF nursing home residents - "We give ourselves a failing grade. This has not been communicated well." Cold disregard for industry retirees shows that MPTF leadership is completely out of touch with its historic mission.