In December 2019, Sharon Farrell flew from Florida to visit her brother Stephen at a New Jersey nursing home, where, she said, she found “disgusting” conditions."I told the nurse, 'I am calling the state,'" she said."I’m paying $9,000 a month, and I wouldn’t let my dog live like this."
, which collapsed in 2019 amid accusations of neglect and financial mismanagement, which the chain denied.NBC News Many homes ran out of money. Others were shut down over neglect documented in government records. In one Arkansas nursing home regulators identified maggots in a resident’s catheter, according to an inspection. Fourteen homes were forced to close permanently, displacing more than 900 residents to new facilities, sometimes hours away.
A year before the Covid outbreak, a female Andover resident with dementia walked out of the facility through two broken doors and was found at 4:30 a.m. sitting in the snow with severe frostbite, according to a. Terri Thompson, her daughter, sued the facility, alleging violations of the minimum standard of care. The lawsuit is pending, and the owners have denied the claims.
When the pandemic arrived, nursing homes in New York and New Jersey, including Andover, took the early brunt. Eighty-three of the home’s 539 residents, or almost 1 out of every 6, died of Covid in the first four months of the pandemic. Farrell’s brother was among the casualties. "I was so morally devastated," he said."It felt so wrong to put someone’s loved one out in the shed."
Wilson wrote that protective equipment delivered to the facility by the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office was unaccounted for. He said an Andover employee said the facility was"aware of a batch of PPE 'donated by the Sheriff’s office' but could not account for its whereabouts or the inventory of the facility’s existing PPE, if such an inventory exists."Wilson wrote,"Staff were observed to be touching their PPE and their face with bare hands.
Federal inspection reports conducted in mid-April 2020 showed similar observations, noting that residents who had symptoms were intermingled with those who were asymptomatic.Representatives for the owners said that at that time it was"often impossible to know who had Covid and who did not because of a lack of testing capability."
The National Guard did respond to a request for emergency aid that Sussex County officials sent to the governor on May 6. Two days later, 22 members of the Guard went to Andover and performed nonmedical tasks, like cleaning the facility.The owners say problems identified in the federal inspections from spring 2020 have been resolved with state and federal regulators.
This story was on the news the beginning of last week sometime. Please stop running old stories.
What is the new name Democrat murder Lodge
Wonder who the REPUKELICAN is that has ownership in this place
Meta?
Come at me lefties, explain why this atrocity is being covered up and our golden generation is being culled. tellmewhy
Will NBC be covering Andrew Cuomo’s reckless nursing home policies? Or are they going to continue kicking it under the rug to cover their own asses for praising his handling of Covid-19?
Thick face shame is the Woodland Cemetery. Amen