Posted on 01/07/2022 9:58:29 AM PST by george76
The state of Connecticut has issued a new order putting COVID patients in nursing homes as hospitals see overcrowding thanks to the latest COVID variant.
The state will issue the order despite Democrat governors in multiple states like New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey forcing nursing homes early in the COVID pandemic to take COVID patients — decisions that resulted in as many as 50,000 elderly people dying as COVID spread in their facilities.
The spread of COVID in nursing homes in New York was so bad after Andrew Cuomo issued his order that 15,000 or more nursing home residents died, a number that he covered up and that some officials believe is higher.
Connecticut will ask nursing homes take COVID patients regardless of their status, meaning COVID-positive patients will be sent to the facilities with at-risk residents.
...
Nursing homes are being asked to accept COVID-positive admissions from hospitals, according to a new guidance from the Department of Public Health, even as positivity rates within nursing homes are increasing sharply.
The latest guidance from the DPH is an indication that the state is trying to alleviate the growing crush of COVID-19 cases in hospitals as they near record numbers of patients.
“Until Thursday, the health department required any patient transferred from a hospital to a long-term care facility to have a negative COVID test performed in the hospital within 48 hours of their transfer, but that requirement is now waived.
“Vaccination status of an individual should not influence decisions about hospital discharge or PAC admission,” according to the DPH.
The guidance puts significant pressure on nursing homes that are already facing severe staffing challenges and testing limitations, providers said.
“Hospitalized patients should be discharged from acute care whenever clinically indicated, regardless of COVID-19 status,” Public Health Commissioner Dr. Manisha Juthani wrote in the two-page memo.
But nursing home officials are balking at the move and they say they should have the right to refuse people who test positive for COVID.
Matthew Barrett, president and CEO of the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities, said nursing homes should still be able to decide whether to accept COVID-positive people from hospitals under the guidance.
“Our initial reading based on the memo released today is that nothing in the memo undermines the nursing home’s appropriate authority to refuse an admission due to their ability to meet the care needs of the resident because of staffing shortages, and COVID status may be a factor in that assessment,” Barrett said.
The move comes just days after news came out that disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will not face any state charges associated with his executive order that resulted in the deaths of as many as 15,000 nursing home residents.
Now the Dims are getting more brazen.
All part of the “great culling”.
Just great.
Hmm right after ny drops charges agaisnt Cuomo for sending covid cases to kill elderly.
Connecticut must see that ruling as their green light to stealth euthanize the elderly
So Connecticut ran their aged useless eaters numbers for 2021 and decided they were not pared down enough.
Gates, Fauci, Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum... UK officials accused of crimes against humanity ( genocide ) in International Criminal Court complaint, citing a series of statistics on the impact of “vaccines” and policies imposed under the guise of “mitigating COVID.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4024420/posts...
The source is LifeNews, not “LifeSiteNews” - two very different organizations / sources. the former with credibility - the latter, not so much.
“The state of Connecticut has issued a new order...”
~~~
Who is the state of connecticut? A whole state doesn’t do this. Someone, or some group, should be held responsible for each and every covid related nursing home death.
Well, that’s one way to fix Medicare....................
Here they go again
Subjecting the most vulnerable and frail to known covid cases and intentionally introduced high risk
They have other options, if there was leadership like Trumps to help create covid recovery facilities run by the Guard, and keep infected people out of NURSING HOMES
Btw, aren’t they firing staff for refusing vaxx and denying visits by family in the interest of “ protecting” the elderly?
This is madness
Just to be straight about this, the current COVID strategy is to mix COVID positive patients in with the most at-risk members of the population. This decision is while they are on a campaign to vaccinate the youth who are the least at-risk from COVID and the most at-risk from the vaccine.
It is really easy to believe that these people are EVIL!
The order happened, and then some things happened to some people.
They do this because Cuomo was not charged with murder in the deaths of the 12-25K deaths he caused in NY. They either don’t know, don’t care or just want to reduce the drain on retirement healthcare resources. Any way you cut it, it is criminal.
Double benefit for central-planning leftists - keep the Covid $$$ flowing, and reduce medicare expenses by killing off elderly “useless eaters.”
Folks, you better learn to treat this yourself, because testing is a waste of time, as there is no medical treatment any doctor’s office or hospital is willing to administer.
Thank you.. here is more.
Old folks tend to vote Republican. Rat Party cesspools like Connecticut see an opportunity to deal with political opponents.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.