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    Nursing home at center of coronavirus deaths spurs precautions across US

    by Maria L. La Ganga And Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Mar 09, 2020 5 minutes

    KIRKLAND, Wash. - Curtis Luterman moved his mother, Mary, into the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Wash., in June. She is 89 years old. She'd been living on the East Coast, nearly 3,000 miles away. He wanted her to "experience the beautiful Pacific Northwest." He wanted to change her life for the better.

    Instead, she ended up in the nursing home at the terrifying center of the coronavirus outbreak. Thirteen residents of the facility who died amid the epidemic tested positive for COVID-19. Eleven others died in the last 2 1/2 weeks of as-yet-unknown causes.

    "I never would have thought that something like this could have happened to her after trying to bring her (here) to improve her life," Luterman told reporters Thursday during a news conference on the leafy nursing home grounds. "I don't blame the staff in here for this incident. What I do blame right now is

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