Templeton also faults the home for not testing residents fast enough and not keeping healthy ones separate from those just back from a nearby hospital showing COVID-19 symptoms, including her mother’s roommate.
They say the crisis has only deepened a chronic staffing shortage at nursing homes because more workers are self-quarantining or staying home with their children. There is still not widespread testing of staff or patients, and shortages of masks and other protective gear persist. “Sending hospitalized patients who are likely harboring the virus to nursing homes that do not have the appropriate units, equipment and staff to accept COVID-19 patients is a recipe for disaster,” said Mark Parkinson, president of the American Health Care Association.
But the order did not mandate regular testing of staffers, which nursing home providers and advocates say is not possible or practical because of the limited availability of tests and delays in getting results. To be sure, infections of all kinds in nursing homes are a chronic problem, killing 380,000 every year. But an AP review of federal inspection records shows some facilities suffering outbreaks were given low “star” rankings for overall quality even before the coronavirus crisis. Three homes in Ohio and Illinois got two out of five stars, as did the one in Gallatin, Tennessee, where an inspector last year found an unsupervised cart in the hall where a resident scooped out ice with her bare hands.
Yeah if we just had a rapid test developed that HCWs could take often like 2 months ago..:
it also highlights the primary risk group for coronavirus. the elderly and those with underlying conditions.
This is New York City's list of deaths from Coronavirus as of this morning. It's 1,397. 18 of those are people who died ONLY of the virus. The rest died of the virus and something else. Or perhaps they died of something else, but also had the virus.
NYC deaths Covid-19 - Fishy This is New York City's list of deaths from Coronavirus as of this morning. It's 1,397. 18 of those are people who died ONLY of the virus. The rest died of the virus and something else. Or perhaps they died of something else, but also had the virus.
For God's sake the virus can linger in the AIR just from an asymptomatic person breathing or talking--from a person who doesn't even know they have the virus...and they can infect anyone. This is so horrific. 😢💔
I was inform by someone who works at Crowne Health Care of Mobile on Navco Rd in Mobile,Al that they have patients and workers that have the Coronavirus.They sent some patients to the local hospital. Please check into this
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