Boston Globe: Plan to turn nursing homes into COVID-19 recovery sites stirs anxiety
April 4, 2020
Boston Globe: Plan to turn nursing homes into COVID-19 recovery sites stirs anxiety
Laura Crimaldi
Some advocates have pressed Baker to abandon the nursing home plan and consider using dormitories, hotel rooms, and recently closed facilities to house recovering COVID-19 patients.
“While well intentioned, the experience, now temporarily halted, with the first two facilities in Worcester and Wilmington clearly demonstrates the risks involved with dislocating frail, vulnerable nursing home residents,” said a statement from leaders at three organizations that advocate for elderly and Paul J. Lanzikos, the state’s secretary for elder affairs in the 1980s.