· 13 hours ago
If I had any enthusiasm for life prior to this week, all the news from the past seven days has killed it. Particularly tragic is the news that earlier this month, as coronavirus spread throughout the United States, a nursing home — the Life Care Center of Kirkland — became the deadliest hotspot for the virus in the United States. The breakdown of communication and coordination of services to care for sick and quarantined residents, combined with the frustrated cries of residents’ relatives who fear their family members have been deemed disposable, is truly heartbreaking.
You can read the facts of the spread of coronavirus in Kirkland and determine if the nursing home could have done more, but to me, the most important thing to take away from this situation is that nursing homes need to be more closely monitored to ensure uniform, high standards of care.