Washington state has coronavirus in 3 different nursing homes

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Washington state has coronavirus in 3 different nursing homes

Scott Sedlacek contracted the virus from his father who is at the Life Care Center in Kirkland.

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  2. Thanh Shanks · Edit

    Remembering Those Liable to be Forgotten
    in the Coronavirus Crisis

    “Coronavirus,” “Sar-cov2,” or COVID-19”
    The these are the words mean nothing to the elderly residents of what we call nursing home right now.

    Because of COVID-19 the government ordered everyone to keep distance, to isolate from others, and to stay home.

    All of that is intended to slow the spread of the virus. It is intended to protect all, but especially the elderly (who are particularly vulnerable to death and/or serious health complications if they are infected with the virus.

    On one hand, I do understand the science behind this isolation order.
    On the other hand, I feel pain when I think how alone the elderly will be in the world this order will enforce.

    I can't help but imagine my mother (who passed away about a year ago, and who had severe dementia). If my mom were alive today, she would be sitting in her wheelchair looking out the window waiting and wondering why her daughters don’t come to visit her, why we abandoned her.

    Her three daughters visited her several times a day while she was in the nursing home. We did little extra things like shampooing her hair, and bringing her little treats, including food from her homeland. But we were there for her in the eternal present that had seized her psyche.

    In my mind’s eye, as I continue to mourn her passing, I see a frail woman. What would be her thoughts as she looked out the window and waited for anyone to come to her? I hear her sadly asking the nurses “Where are my daughters?” And I imagine them answering (for the 10th time) that (for reasons she cannot comprehend, or retain) her daughters are not there for her, and won’t be coming any time soon.

    She was a strong woman, but to be abandoned in her moment of need, confusion, perhaps even despair would have seemed so cruel . . . . Perhaps too much for even her stern heart to bear.

    Like my mother, many of those now occupying nursing homes and other such facilities probably cannot understand COVID-19. Even if they can understand they forget the explanation, but cannot shake the feeling of unremitting loneliness.

    Confused, alone, struggling with an enemy that has no mercy on their mental facilities, the essence of what they must feel is “abandoned” as they stay, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, alone not only in their room, but also in their own mental world.

    Nursing homes are notoriously short staffed. There isn’t a lot of money in taking care of these frail ones, and the companies have business models that can hardly pay people for a lot of non-physical care. Furthermore, and let’s be frank about it, taking care of the elders can be very challenging for the caregivers in the best of circumstances. Because of the economic realities of care facilities, residents often spend most of their time sitting by themselves, frustrated, sad, and isolated with little to look forward to but family visits. This last social life preserver has now been withdrawn. And they often can’t even understand why. . .

    My mom is gone (which is probably a blessing for her) but I feel pain for all those who are in the circumstances she left behind. My heart goes out to the residents of these care facilities, and to the care-givers struggling to give them the kind care which every human soul deserves.

    May God bless, and keep them all!
    They surely must feel forgotten by the rest of us (who sometimes are pained because we cannot go to the gym, or to yoga class, or to the movies, or to parties).

  5. Jay Goodman · Edit

    Bill Gates & Amazon could unite to make test kits🤔

  14. Sara · Edit

    I feel so bad for the workers. I worked in a nursing home briefly before college and it is a thankless job even without coronavirus…If anything, I would look forward to death if I was a patient at a nursing home. They’re sad places in general.

  15. W T · Edit

    @none yun None Yun who are you? You’re liar. You want this virus spreading out of control in America. You want American people not to be alert. Are you from the evil communist country? You want America to fail. You are the fake news. So did China close down over 80 cities? Did Italy lockdown cities? You’re fake stop spreading fake news here.

  17. None Yun · Edit

    This shill works for a BIOLOGICAL reagent company! This is soooo fake people! Wake up! His company makes pathogen specific kits! Wake up and do your research on the fake news and their crisis actors they put forward to push the agenda! Go to his company website Promega, and the first thing you see on their homepage CORONAVIRUS!

  33. themisses · Edit

    Lord Jesus the elderly deserves better attention and treatment than this…The health care providers deserves better than this….God please help us please

  36. Peggy Genoway · Edit

    @1:10 "on Wednesday, I felt horrible, so I visited my father at Life Care Center…" 😱

  37. Dora Smith · Edit

    I had a housemate who worked in a nursing home, and I went and applied there. The place was an amazement. There were two facilities right next to each other. I went in the nice one by mistake. The place was warm and the patients were treated beautifully. But the place I wanted to apply to was the other one. The place stank. The patients were pretty much ignored. They were sicker than in the first place. I don't mean they weren't getting care, I mean, noone was paying attention to them, and there wasn't a lovely sitting room and people helping them to and from it.

    I had to wait in the employee break/ eating area. Every employee there was straight out of the ghetto, and they were sitting there giving ME an attitude, and I hadn't done anything but sit down and wait! Now, these people are ALL paid $10 an hour, even the nurses' aides.

  40. Carolyn Elliott · Edit

    They aren’t testing their employees! What do they expect?

  43. Raindancer98405 Washington · Edit

    DNS nurses…why a D for your staff? Is it a shortage? Administrator needs to pour money into giving you staff. Big ❤s for all the nurses and support staff. Prayers for your many patients and families.

  47. Youfan · Edit

    Everybody knows the Coronavirus is more dangerous for old people, yet now it hits nursing homes. An outbreak on the worst case possible scenario. It's like the virus knows its best targets available.

  48. Phoenix Sun · Edit

    I work at the hospital, it doesn’t help to tell the elderly to stay at home they flood the units just by saying they have diarrhea, and most cases there’s been no diarrhea, only fever and vomiting which in most cases they have meds there for those treatments.The nursing homes are shipping them out to us

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