Hacker Noon February 16, 2021
In the US, nursing home residents and staff have accounted for over a third of coronavirus deaths.
The collection of elder Americans in a system suffering many failures in long term care led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. There were facilities where healthy residents shared rooms with those who’d tested positive, nursing home workers refused the coronavirus vaccine, and experimental treatments were administered without family members’ knowledge. Half of Americans feel more negatively towards nursing homes than they did pre-pandemic.
As deaths abound and incoming residents decline, nursing homes are falling in occupancy as costs rise. 65% of nursing homes are operating at a loss while 25% have a margin of under 3%. What will these figures mean...
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