Federal officials have stopped payment for all new admissions at the Veterans Memorial Home in Menlo Park, effectively stopping the home from accepting new patients, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Officials said they will cut off all Medicare and Medicaid funding if the facility doesn’t improve conditions by March 2023.
Federal investigators said they found “substantial” compliance issues at the home in September, like failing to implement infection control measures, and the facility hasn’t improved since then. The halt on payments began Tuesday, the same day the Murphy administration sent a “mission critical” team to the home to help improve the care of the veterans living there.
