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It ain't Shakespeare, but it's all too relevant. According to David Grabowski of Harvard Medical School, the nursing-home industry was “already in crisis” before the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a dangerous “lack of resources and regulation” right along.
The pandemic exacerbated and exposed this sorry state of affairs. A New Jersey facility where “83 residents died of Covid” then changed its name and kept on going. Its ownership remains the same. Medicare and Medicaid keep paying the bills.
As of last week, 23 of its residents have been diagnosed with Covid. Worse yet, other facilities share this ownership. Grabowski asserted, “We need to ensure… that nursing homes aren’t able to simply put a new name on the building and continue to operate as is.”
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