‘It’s Hit Our Front Door’: Homes for the Disabled See a Surge of Covid-19
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The call came on March 24. Bob McGuire, the executive director of CP Nassau, a nonprofit group that cares for the developmentally disabled, received a report from a four-story, colonnaded building in Bayville, N.Y., that houses several dozen residents with severe disabilities ranging from cerebral palsy to autism. For many of them, discussions of social distancing or hand washing are moot.
“Bob, we’re starting to see symptoms,” Mr. McGuire was told.
Fevers were spreading. Within 24 hours, 10 residents were taken to the hospital. Now, little more than two weeks later, 37 of the home’s 46 residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. Two are dead; nine remain hospitalized. At least eight members of the staff have tested positive as well.
“Forgive me if I get emotional,” Mr. McGuire said in an interview, choking up. “People discount people with disabilities and presume they understand them when they don’t know them. They think their lives are not worth the same as yours or mine, and that’s just not true.”
As the coronavirus preys on the most vulnerable, it is taking root in New York’s sprawling network of group homes for people with special needs.
Read more here https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyregion/coronavirus-disabilities-group-homes.html
The call came on March 24. Bob McGuire, the executive director of CP Nassau, a nonprofit group that cares for the developmentally disabled, received a report from a four-story, colonnaded building in Bayville, N.Y., that houses several dozen residents with severe disabilities ranging from cerebral palsy to autism. For many of them, discussions of social distancing or hand washing are moot.
“Bob, we’re starting to see symptoms,” Mr. McGuire was told.
Fevers were spreading. Within 24 hours, 10 residents were taken to the hospital. Now, little more than two weeks later, 37 of the home’s 46 residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. Two are dead; nine remain hospitalized. At least eight members of the staff have tested positive as well.
“Forgive me if I get emotional,” Mr. McGuire said in an interview, choking up. “People discount people with disabilities and presume they understand them when they don’t know them. They think their lives are not worth the same as yours or mine, and that’s just not true.”
As the coronavirus preys on the most vulnerable, it is taking root in New York’s sprawling network of group homes for people with special needs.
Read more here https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyregion/coronavirus-disabilities-group-homes.html
Recent Posts
Breaking News DDS Rate Increased
Happy New Year. Breaking News DDS announces new ARM rates for Residential Care Facilities that provide services to Adults with Developmental Disabilities. To View Rates click on link below:https://www.dds.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CCF_Rates_January_2021.pdfTo …CCLD giving RCFE Caregivers a $500 hazard pay Bonus.
Since April 24,2020, County of Los Angeles department of public health issued order of The Health Officer for Control of Covid-19.ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER FOR CONTROL OF COVID-19
Since April 24,2020, County of Los Angeles department of public health issued order of The Health Officer for Control of Covid-19.‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims At Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes
The first warning of the devastation that the coronavirus could wreak inside U.S. nursing homes came in late February, when residents of a facility in …California Data on Covid-19
Here is the California Data on Covid-19