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Health inspectors are being sent by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to nursing homes as well as hospitals to check on the practices in place for infection control. The main attention is going to areas where the coronavirus has been identified.
More Attention on Infection Control
The increase in attention comes from the five deaths of residents at Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington who had all been infected with the coronavirus. The inspectors would be looking at whether the correct protocols were in place and if the staff had followed the rules on infection control. This same facility had been cited in the past year for lapses in infection control, but the issues had been corrected, according to inspectors.