Posted on 04/09/2020 12:10:28 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Dozens of residents have been evacuated from a Riverside nursing home where nearly 40 reported novel coronavirus cases have been reported after employees at the facility failed to show up to care for patients on two consecutive days, health officials said Wednesday.
A total of 83 residents are being moved from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center to other health care locations across the county, according to officials from the Riverside County Public Health Department. A news release earlier in the day said 84 patients were being relocated.
As of 4:30 p.m., 55 residents had been evacuated to other facilities, and 28 others were waiting to be transported in the “ongoing” evacuation operation, according to Bruce Barton, director of the county’s Emergency Management Department.
Riverside University Health System and Kaiser Permanente sent 33 licensed vocational and registered nurses to the 90-bed facility, located at 8133 Magnolia Ave., on Tuesday after only one of 13 certified nursing assistants went to work, officials said. But on Wednesday morning, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, the county’s public health officer, made the emergency decision to evacuate the facility and move patients after noting there was insufficient staff available.
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Abandonment? I guess the employees did not care if they got fired...
Those people will probably get hired somewhere else unless they lose their state license...
They should lose their licenses
This is heartbreaking. Licensing requirements aside, the staff has a moral duty to attend. But I’m guessing they don’t have the protective equipment they need.
Suppose my daughter had three young children. What would I tell her if she were one of those nursing assistants? I’m seriously afraid to think about that.
Yeah, I can see how 83 patients would be overwhelming for a single CNA.
83 residents/13 workers is about 6 residents to one worker.
Riverside in Lichtenstein?
In Tennessee, it’s not abandonment if you don’t come in at all. If you leave residents unsafe after coming in, then it is. They are allowed to quit even without notice. You can’t force anyone to go to work.
I’m a nurse manager in a nursing home. We’re planning for this, if we get a case of the virus. Some CNA’s have already said they won’t come in. Nurses are not as forth coming, so we managers try to figure out how many would come in.
It’s a tough choice and I see both sides. These residents need total care, and yet employees have families. We’re doing everything we can to keep it out of the facility.
If you’re a praying person remember all nursing homes.
I agree.
I thought they were Heroes?
If your daughter had three children and was being told to work in an environment where she wasn't being protected - and would likely die - I hope you would tell her to stay home, call the State abuse line - and report the nursing home.
Nursing homes are probably the most depressing places on earth. We had to admit my wife’s mother into one when she could no longer function. After a month we brought her back home where we had hospice. The “skilled nurses” at the facility were nothing but warehouse managers and my 92 year old mother in law was being mistreated and the nursing home was supposed to be a good one. I think this Riverside incident is disgraceful. The manager or the workers should have anticipated the lack of preparedness. Just pray that none of us ends up in a nursing home.
In the early 1970's I had a girlfriend in E'town, Kentucky whose extended family operated a nursing home in a private residence. They had about six or seven elderly in one house. It seemed really odd to me at the time.
My wife’s a CMA/CNA at the local nursing home and it’s concerning to say the least because she also has COPD. They’ve got things locked down pretty tight but they just got surgical masks a couple of days ago. One mask each with a paper bag to store them in. Expected to wear them forever I guess. Pretty sad that the business pays about the same as fast food workers, cashiers etc.
Riverside in Lichtenstein?
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Probably the most famous city in Riverside County is Palm Springs...
During the Katrina hurricane did not some nursing homes in Louisiana kill their patients when they could not evacuate them?
My wife’s a CMA/CNA at the local nursing home and it’s concerning to say the least because she also has COPD... Pretty sad that the business pays about the same as fast food workers, cashiers etc.
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In California, I noticed that many CNAs are Filipinos...
I guess the companies are unwilling to pay “too much” money for CNAs...Therefore, they bring in Filipinos?
“...the staff has a moral duty to attend. “
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