26 March 2020: New York Mandates Nursing Homes Take Covid-19 Patients Discharged From Hospitals - The pushback from nursing homes fearing harm to their resident patients was immediate, as this article confirms. Here's a short excerpt:
A group representing doctors who work in nursing homes, known as AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, said in a recent resolution that “admitting patients with suspected or documented Covid-19 infection represents a clear and present danger to all of the residents of a nursing home.”
“We’ve got an extraordinarily vulnerable population on our hands,” said Christopher Laxton, executive director of the group. Nursing homes’ older, often frail residents are particularly susceptible to the virus. Many nursing homes have also long struggled with infection control, according to federal inspection records and researchers.
The Cuomo administration cannot say they were not warned of the danger of their policy from the very time it was implemented.
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2020/05/12/draft-n2568661
A group representing doctors who work in nursing homes, known as AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, said in a recent resolution that “admitting patients with suspected or documented Covid-19 infection represents a clear and present danger to all of the residents of a nursing home.”
“We’ve got an extraordinarily vulnerable population on our hands,” said Christopher Laxton, executive director of the group. Nursing homes’ older, often frail residents are particularly susceptible to the virus. Many nursing homes have also long struggled with infection control, according to federal inspection records and researchers.
The Cuomo administration cannot say they were not warned of the danger of their policy from the very time it was implemented.
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2020/05/12/draft-n2568661