CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (ABC7) — A Charles County nursing home with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home facilities in Maryland is being fined $10,000 a day for failing to protect residents and staff from the spread of the coronavirus, according to a letter from Maryland's Office of Health Care Quality.
The Office of Health Care Quality conducted a survey at Sagepoint Senior Living Services between April 21 and May 6 and it was determined that the facility didn't comply with state regulations including failure to obtain critical lab results on time, failure to use appropriate hygiene, failure to appropriately use personal protection equipment, and failure to cohort residents with suspected or known COVID-19, according to the Maryland State Department of Health.
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Fines, another word for extortion.
ReplyDeleteThis is a joke, right?
ReplyDeleteSo they are being fined? What does that mean? Nothing. Tax payers are paying it since most of these nursing homes are almost completely funded by Medicaid.
ReplyDeleteWeren't they also forced by state law to take Covid patients? So are they supposed to set up makeshift isolation Chambers when there is no ppe available or are they supposed to do the brain swab test on Alzheimer's patients weekly?
ReplyDelete12:59 There is no law that forced the nursing home to take Covid patients. I think you may be confused with what happened in NY. It wasn't a *law* but cuomo decided to not use the temporary overflow hospitals-such as the Comfort ship or the one set up in Central Park by Samaritans Purse for recovered Covid patients. This resulted in many being returned to the nursing home where they contracted the virus.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Nursing Homes in Salisbury?
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