"Visiting Angels they'll give you COVID when your not looking."
Posted on 04/20/2020 6:01:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma on Sunday announced that the Trump administration would begin requiring nursing homes to report confirmed coronavirus cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Speaking at a White House briefing, Verma said that the new guidelines would also mandate that nursing homes communicate with patients and their families when one of their residents tests positive for COVID-19.
"It’s important that patients and their families have the information that they need and they need to understand what’s going on in the nursing home," Verma said, adding that the initiative would support efforts to effectively and safely reopen portions of the economy.
The novel coronavirus has spread to thousands of nursing homes and long-term care facilities since it first reached the U.S., becoming a hot spot for the virus's outbreak in certain regions. More than 36,500 residents and staff members have contracted the virus and more than 7,000 have perished from it, according to The New York Times.
Up until Sunday, the CDC did not require nursing homes to report data to the agency. A CMS directive noted that nursing homes could now face enforcement action for failing to report virus cases.
"This is very important," Verma said. "As we reopen the U.S., our surveillance effort around COVID-19 will also begin in nursing homes, and so by having this reporting system this will support CDC’s efforts to have surveillance around the country."
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That surprises me. I would have guessed that they would have to report things like that as a matter of course—if they could determine that.
Hey, the CDC was studying more important stuff before all this started, like "why lesbians tend to be fat". They can't waste their time on protecting a bunch of old invalids in nursing homes from infections diseases.
Of curse the Washington Post was defending this sort of foolish waste of taxpayer money back in 2014.
I wish this were in place two weeks ago. My mother-in-law just died Saturday at a nursing care center in Kankakee, IL. She was one of 28 of the 70 residents who turned up positive, and one of three who (so far) have died. Nursing homes are breeding grounds for disease, I’m learning.
Exactly. My first thought was, "Why wouldn't they report?"
North Carolina reports cases in: CONGREGATE LIVING FACILITIES.
(nursing homes, group homes, prisons)
They currently account for over 1/3 of all the deaths in the state.
People would pull their supposedly not sick family members out of one in a heartbeat. Bankruptcy.
Fire Redfield.
He's an incompetent boob.
Niteowl77 - who is a health care professional - has said that for years. The biggest long term care facility outbreak in Iowa so far happens to be owned by an outfit that was a big Clinton donor.
States have been tracking that and reporting on that for about a week now, maybe longer.
The workers must be bringing in the virus and then it spreads.
At the beginning there may have been family members or even residents bringing it into a facility, but once they stopped letting any visitors in, staff becomes the likely source.
Honestly, I think it’s impossible to keep it out, even if you stop admitting visitors. And the problem with gathering all these people - elderly, some already very ill with other things and even bedridden - in one place is that the disease just takes off once it gets in.
I think it might be a good idea to look at more distributed, smaller facilities, or home health care for those whose family can keep them at home (have the space, the time, etc.). Because of their medical condition or things like angry dementia, some people couldn’t feasibly be kept at home, but maybe it’s time to look at smaller, less dense housing options.
"Visiting Angels they'll give you COVID when your not looking."
These numbers seem ridiculously high. That would be almost 20% of the nursing home population. The NY death rate is only approximately 1% of the population. (The nursing home population in 2017 was 1,300,000, that was the latest year I could find.)
BTW, my spouse is in a nursing home, so I am very concerned about this.
THese are state-regulated places. But the states, ESPECIALLY democratic states, have done a HORRIBLE job of protecting these vunerable populations. In Virginia, a vast majority of our outbreaks are in these homes; the governor did nothing to make sure that they had the equipment and testing needed to keep them safe. Maryland, another democratic bastion, has had several huge outbreaks. We allknow about Washington STate, and New YOrk/New Jersey are awash with dead old people who were isolated at home in nursing homes where workers brought them the killer virus.
THe homes report to the states, the states report the information.
The CDC has now realized the states can’t be trusted, and are not keeping these people safe, so now the feds are going to get involved, which is not the way it SHOULD be, but these democratic states are letting their old people (who mostly vote republican) get decimated while they make sure 15-year-olds can’t skate board.
We have one nursing home with 45 deaths, in a state with 300 total deaths. We report 77 totals nursing home deaths; of our 139 outbreaks, 77 of them are in these facilities.
2700 New York deaths are in nursing homes.
States have failed to protect the most vulnerable, because it was good for democrats to have deaths to report, and because they were too busy keeping 20-year-olds from buying seeds.
Yeah, apparently that’s what happened.
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