Union for 400,000 long–term care workers issues plea for federal help to better protect the health care aides who they say are facing extreme risks.
"Our members are truly on the front lines of this crisis. They are providing vital care to the nation’s most at-risk population on a daily basis," said April Verrett, president of SEIU Local 2015."These workers are putting themselves in harm’s way every day that they go without proper protective equipment, and that ends now."
In the fog, Carroll County Health Department personnel place a "no trespassing" sign by the driveway of the Pleasant View Nursing Home, in Mount Airy, Md., Sunday, March 29, 2020.Federal officials monitoring nursing home cases around the country, estimated that more than 400 of the facilities have at least one positive case. And dozens have faced widespread infection during the outbreak -- exposing not only the vulnerable residents but also those working there.
Dr. Patricia Stone, a Columbia School of Nursing professor who researches infection prevention and control in nursing homes, said the vulnerabilities facing nursing care aides is just as real as with first responders, emergency room doctors and hospital nurses. In part, she said, that is because the work involves close contact with residents."All of health care is physical, it really is. It’s intimate," Stone said.
A view of the Pleasant View Nursing Home, March 30, 2020, in Mount Airy, Md. Over the weekend, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced that at least 66 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at the nursing home, including one death.Gretchen Gordon, a qualified medication administrator at Applewood Place Assisted Living in Colorado, said when she had a cough last month her supervisor told her to take an entire week off of work -- which to her was 14 shifts.
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