WFXT FOX25: 25 Investigates: MA took step to shut down nursing home it used for COVID-19 patients just months ago
November 11, 2020
by Kerry Kavanaugh
WFXT FOX25: 25 Investigates: MA took step to shut down nursing home it used for COVID-19 patients just months ago
“This week, Massachusetts took a first step toward shutting down a nursing home that, just four months ago, it was using for COVID-19 positive patients. 25 Investigates recently reported how some struggling long-term care facilities were part of the state’s pandemic response plan, as coronavirus cases surged in the spring…
…“We should not continually impact nursing homes with these patients,” said Arlene Germain is the policy director of the Massachusetts Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, which has demanded for months the state stop sending sick COVID-19 patients into nursing homes. “And as we know, elders are very susceptible to any disease, and especially it turns out to COVID.”…
…In a news release, MassHealth said the homes had “a historic record of poor performance.”
“It tells me that one hand doesn’t know what the other hand is doing,” said Germain…”