The Woodland Hills home and hospital run by the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) reported its first case of the coronavirus on March 31, with another six positive tests on Friday.
In an emailed letter to The Hollywood Reporter, MPTF CEO and president Bob Beitcher writes about the first resident to die of complications related to the virus.
On April 6, we lost our first resident at MPTF to COVID-19 — John Breier. He died at West Hills Hospital. John's wife, Mona, was a longtime member of Local 174.
He lived with an MS diagnosis for over 25 years and when in 2014 his family could no longer care for him at home, he joined our family on the Wasserman campus in Woodland Hills in our skilled nursing unit, Mary Pickford House.