The governing council of Institute of Social and Socio-Sanitary Care (IASS), dependent on the Council of Tenerifehas decided temporarily eliminate 80 of the 374 places that it had arranged at Home Santa Rita “until the quality of service and user safety is verified.” According to the Ser, this agreement, which modifies an agreement signed in January 2019 and retouched in January 2020, has its origin in the irregularities denounced by Health during its intervention in the center in December 2020 and in the judicial process opened later to clarify whether or not there was any type of crime in the management of this nursing home, where 25 people died from Covid and cases of scabies, malnutrition and dehydration were reported.
This reduction was initially in force for three months, until March 31, but has been extended pending completion. “the resource follow-up evaluation report prepared by the IASS Dependency Care Unit”. A document not yet finalized, as confirmed this Tuesday, April 5, 2022 to EL DÍA, sources from the Island Council.
The opinion of the IASS rejects the allegations of the Home Santa Rita and agrees to a significant temporary reduction in the number of concerted places and the funds that are transferred to this entity. It happens from 149 to 127 low-requirement residential care places (-22); from 125 to 107 medium-requirement residential care (-18); from 20 to 10 direct care places (-10), and from 80 to 50 places in the personal autonomy promotion service (-30).
The IASS approved on February 18 a reduction of 22% of the places arranged in the Hogar Santa Rita “until the quality of the service and the safety of the users is verified”
Although this reduction of 22% of the total places arranged by the IASS in Santa Ritathere are still 294 more, pending the process of preliminary investigations initiated in the Court of Instruction Number 2 of Puerto de la Cruzafter a complaint made by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The managing director of Santa Rita, Thomas Villar, was already summoned to testify as an investigator on March 11. In his speech on February 23 to the workers, Villar made reference to “the threat that the contracted places in Santa Rita will be reduced,” which he called “incongruity” and “unfair treatment.” In his opinion, “there is a need on the islands, with more than 8,000 people waiting for a residential place and in Santa Rita there are more than 200 who are not occupied. What is behind all this history? Before a possible definitive intervention of the Home Santa RitaVillar warned his workers that the residence “we are not going to close it for free, that will never happen.”
The agreement of the Governing Council of the IASS indicates that the number of people who died from Covid outbreaks in 2020 at Hogar Santa Rita is 25, when until now there was talk of 21
