The COVID-19 Nursing Home Problem
Updated: Jul 25, 2020
There are so many questions swirling about how Skilled Nursing Facilities/Nursing Homes handled COVID-19. What could have been done to stop this insidious virus??
(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html)
50% of US COVID-19 deaths were in nursing homes, that's a shocking number. Was the cause of viral spread in these buildings due to poor leadership and direction? Or perhaps contradictory guidance from authorities? What could have been done within the first critical days? What should have happened and have we learned anything?
These questions and many more are why True Review exists, we here to help answer these because we lived it.
Jared Bane, MBA, LNHA