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Pennsylvania attorney general, all bluster, "will not tolerate those that mistreat seniors", has opened a criminal ivestigation into nursing homes.. Here is where he should start- https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsy...-nursing-home/
Levine ordered long-term care facilities in the state to continue to accept coronavirus patients
Pennsylvania attorney general, all bluster, "will not tolerate those that mistreat seniors", has opened a criminal ivestigation into nursing homes.. Here is where he should start- https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsy...-nursing-home/
Levine ordered long-term care facilities in the state to continue to accept coronavirus patients
5 % of the elderly population resides in a nursing home.
Every state has a disproportionate number of nursing home deaths related to complications of C - 19. Every state.
Several states- maybe even most states required nursing homes to accept C19 patients upon release from the ER or hospital when the nipursing home had the ability to isolate C19 residents from the general polulatiin and had adequate PPE.
We know with certainty:
The front line of first responders, hospital professionals and care givers did not have adequate PPE and refused what they had or otherwise made do, and
Testing was not available to the front line unless they had a fever.
Whereas the WH is tested daily, that’s not the case for those who work in and with the most vulnerable in nursing homes.
A nursing home 50 miles SW of Chicago made the decision to close their dining room. The ordered TV fables and assigned someone to unpack, deliver and set up the tables in residents’ rooms. The guy was not feeling well and thought he had a bad cold. Nursing home did not pay unless one worked so he decided to push through and work.
Next day, he could not get out of bed and was transported to an ER. He tested positive. Within days he was in the ICU and dead. Beginning a week or so later, residents began having symptoms of C19. Within 3 weeks, 27 residents had died of complications related to C19.
Similar scenarios are playing out across the country.
The number of C-19 tests was woefully inadequate for months.
Unlikely patients were or are infecting each other. They are not out and about. They are not using public transportation. They are not at Walmart buying TP. It’s all about the employees who unknowingly are infecting the residents.
So who the heck would place a parent in a nursing home now?
Someone looking for an inheritance.
The elderly usually make the decision- they don’t want to be a burden or clearly need a level of care beyond the family’s capability.
Most people in The typical nursing homes have long exhausted their financial resources or need every cent to pay for ongoing care which can easily run $75,000-$100,000 a year.
The real question is why more people aren’t pulling loved ones out.
No, that isn't the real question.
Those who are in nursing homes/long term care facilities are in nursing homes/long term care facilities for a reason, and that reason is usually because these folks can't be given the proper 24/7 care that they need at home & by family members.
Dr. Levine didn't pull his/her mother out and bring her home to take care of her, he/she put her in Hershey Lodge and she (the mother) has round the clock private care.
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