Posted on 05/06/2020 1:46:39 PM PDT by robowombat
Coronavirus Outbreak Leaves 54 Dead At Medford Nursing Home More than 100 additional residents and dozens of employees have tested positive for the virus. By Alex Newman, Patch Staff May 5, 2020 11:01 am ET | Updated May 5, 2020 2:49 pm ET
More than 50 residents of the Courtyard Nursing Care Center have died from the coronavirus.
More than 50 residents of the Courtyard Nursing Care Center have died from the coronavirus. (Shutterstock) MEDFORD, MA — Dozens of residents of a single nursing home in Medford have died from the coronavirus. There have been 54 deaths attributed to the virus at the Courtyard Nursing Care Center, and 117 additional residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Forty-two staff members have tested positive as well.
The average age of the residents that died was over 85 years old, said Dr. Richard Feifer, chief medical officer of Genesis Healthcare, which runs the nursing home. Feifer said eight other residents died during this time – four were negative for the coronavirus, three refused testing and one had a test pending.
Two long-term employees died, but it is unknown whether they had the coronavirus, according to Feifer.
The 224-bed facility facility cares for "largely frail, elderly seniors with multiple health conditions," many of whom have dementia, "making precautions and restrictions difficult to enforce," Feifer said.
The National Guard has tested all residents and is working toward testing all staff. The majority of residents that tested positive did not display symptoms.
Subscribe "I can assure you that we are working around the clock to keep our patients and residents healthy and as safe as possible," Feifer said. "We are doing everything in our power – and everything medical experts know as of at this time – to protect our patients, residents and employees."
As a national organization, Genesis has been able to obtain the necessary personal protective equipment for its facilities, despite shortages in many areas, Feifer said. The staff at the Courtyard Nursing Care Center has been wearing full PPE since March 26, ahead of guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he said.
Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn said the number of deaths at nursing homes in Medford and across Massachusetts has been "staggering and devastating."
"At our request the National Guard was brought into these facilities to provide assistance, particularly with testing and staffing," Lungo-Koehn said. "The Board of Health is also in constant communication with the DPH and has reported concerns and advocated for additional needs in these areas, on multiple occasions, and will continue to do so. We are committed to doing everything possible to protect the health and safety of our residents."
"Medford was among the first communities in the state to restrict access to nonessential businesses, pushed hard for amendments to orders around 'essential' services in order to limit the number of non-residents coming into our community, and have worked closely with healthcare partners to increase access to testing," she continued.
City officials remain in daily contact with administrators of the city's three nursing homes to address their ongoing need for resources such as PPE, additional staffing and testing.
Looks like the rat northern state governors are into murder Incorporated.
Such an ongoing tragedy. If anyone has a loved one in such or like institution, get them out if you possibly can ASAP.
madness.....
Was/is the state of MA permitting positive employees to come to work at nursing himes?
Hey, I have an idea! Why don’t we protect the vulnerable?
They rejected my last idea: administer the HCQ/zinc protocol at the earliest stages.
On the other hand, we could continue to allow the vulnerable to die and refrain from using HCQ while forcing everyone else to cower in place as everything they built in a lifetime dwindles down the drain.
I guess no HCQ available at $1 per dose. Sickening.
Maybe it was those ventilators they got from Cuomo
You beat me to it. Negligent Homicide.
2 weeks ago MA had thousands less than here in FL.
They went into major lockdown and now 2 weeks later they have double than what we do in FL.
Which did they not do?
1. Suspend all visitors from the outside?
2. Mask & glove all staff?
3. Maintain “social distancing” between residents?
4. Step up constant sanitizing procedures of all rooms and common areas?
5. Temperature and Oxygen test all staff daily on arriving for work, and refusing entry to any staff that might be ill?
And others I’m sure I missed and any of you can think of.
Of course the big one the nursing homes had no control over, was forced acceptance (by government command) back into the home returning patients that had tested positive for the Wuhan Virus.
And of course most nursing homes do not have ICU standard isolation rooms. Generally patients needing such a medical service have had to be sent to a hospital.
Why anyone in government would sanely force nursing homes to take back Wuhan Virus positive patients, before they are fully recovered surpasses all understanding. Might as well send an active measles infected kid to a school house where none of the kids get vaccines.
Thanks for clarification. I though this might be Medford, Oregon.
Yet 84 percent of Mass residents think Governor Baker is doing a good job handling the virus!!
Having lived there for work I can honestly say most there are ignorant idiots who think big government is their lifeline.
Right? What do they have to lose at this point. Their strategy isn’t working out too well.
We need to change the name of demonicRAT run States from Blue States to Code Blue States.
In an another instance where one place was hit hard ; a South Dakota meat packing plant when 38 percent of all known cases in that state broke out at one location back in March, soon after the plant’s owners, communist Chinese party officials visited the plant .
So how is it this virus, tends to just show up and hits hard at selective locations, where it does the most damage, nursing homes, meat packing plants , (subways?), and nobody suspects anything, other than it must be highly contagious?
Pork Plant at Center of South Dakota’s Virus Outbreak Had Visit From CCP-Tied Owners:
https://amac.us/pork-plant-at-center-of-south-dakotas-virus-outbreak-had-visit-from-ccp-tied-owners/
Easy to be confused. There are numerous Medfords:
Medford, Indiana
Medford, Maine
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford, Minnesota
Medford, Missouri
Medford, New Jersey
Medford, New York
Medford, Oklahoma
Medford, Oregon
Medford, Wisconsin
Medford Lakes, New Jersey
Medford Township, Kansas
Medford Township, Minnesota
Medford Township, North Dakota
Another Democrat state that can’t keep its residents alive. It’s obvious that Joe Biden would not do better than all these Democrat politicians have done. Why would anyone vote such incompetents into national office? They offer nothing other than the misery of Socialism as their plan for our future.
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