micro, I agree with you about it being infuriating that they sent Covid positive, recovering patients to nursing homes. Especially when you consider how they sent in the MASH type portable hospitals, and a hospital ship to help deal with it, and they barely got used. They turned things into a political statement, which they are still doing, instead of dealing with it strictly as a medical situation.The one thing that infuriated me beyond words with this is how in NY they sent Covid positive patients to nursing homes!
An FYI, Medicare runs out after 30 and other insurances have cut off dates for services also. After that they either need to send you to an extended care unit in the hospital or a nursing home.
So what did they do? To me it sounds as though they had no rooms at the inn so they shipped them out to nursing homes/rehab centers where the most vulnerable people reside.
I've worked in enough nursing homes and rehab centers to know that as the rule goes, they are not set up to handle large number isolation cases, nor are they staffed to handle them. Staff working isolation shouldn't work with the general census and vise versa. Good luck, ain't gonna happen.
I hope medicine has learned some lessons from this so that if and when it happens again it will be handled better......then again......Yeah, wishful thinking.