55 dead in overwhelming Brooklyn nursing home

NEW YORK (AP) -A problem with the 360-bed Cobble Hill Health Center as residents of a nursing home in Kirkland, WA begin to die in late February due to the outbreak of a life-threatening coronavirus for 43 people. There were few signs of. Facility in the exclusive section of Brooklyn.

By mid-March, the CEO will have a visitor ban, staff screening, resident captivity, all surface wipes, meetings on all decks, and everyone in preparation for the upcoming Coronavirus “freight train”. We have begun to send more and more alert emails about preparing.

“I would be ridiculous if I didn’t do everything on my own to protect them,” Donnie Tuckman wrote before it got worse. Nearly a third of employees, more than 100 staff, went sick. Due to lack of protective equipment, the remaining people began to wear garbage bags. To date, even one resident has not been screened for viruses.

Currently, 55 deaths are listed, allegedly caused by COVID-19. The Cobble Hill Health Center is another prominent example of a domestic struggle to control the rapid spread of coronaviruses in the country. The most vulnerable and vulnerable care facility.

Cobble Hill’s disastrous casualties are not only in Kirkland, but 49 in homes near Richmond, Virginia, 48 in veteran homes in Holy York, Massachusetts, and in New York City’s outskirts. It also surpasses at least 40 other 5 homes. Each died.

Of the 8,003 deaths from nursing homes nationwide by the Associated Press, one-third live in New York.

An AP interview with friends and relatives who visited the Cobble Hill Health Center in the last few weeks, and a home statement, lack staff, equipped personal protective equipment, and are not equipped to address the outbreak of the coronavirus. I am drawing a picture of the facility. Reliable test availability.

“They were under siege,” said Daniel Albinie. Daniel Albini brought his sick 88-year-old father from the hospital home at the end of March. “They were doing what they could, under siege, as long as we could reach out.”

Mr Tuckman, who told AP on Sunday, believes many other homes will have more deaths than Cobble Hill, but his honesty is admitted. He said it responded to a voluntary survey of the state. It could have been a factor that could be a “potential” COVID-19, as his home couldn’t test anything due to the lack of kits available. The state repeated the count on Sunday, but also said he reported 50 deaths instead of 55.

“There are many lip services about the vulnerability of nursing homes, and everyone has their best intentions, but that didn’t happen,” Tuchman said. “PPE didn’t happen, staffing didn’t grow, tests didn’t happen … How could you expect this to not spread?”

Tuckman is not sure how the virus entered Cobble Hill, but pointed out that there was a parade with paramedics and staff screened for health questions and temperature checks every day entering the building. . I’m ill but have no symptoms.

Shortly after the news of the death toll at Cobble Hill was reported, Steven Vince went to discuss with his manager about his recently deceased uncle. The administrator told him he was confident his uncle had no virus.

“It’s very amazing because I don’t think anyone from the facility will ever contact us about this or anything that basically gets our attention.”

A New York City artist and best friend who lives in Cobble Hill, the home of Alzheimer’s disease for three years, Eva Bookmüller has a small room tightly packed along a narrow corridor and resident. I was not surprised that it spread over a cramped room in which you can open the window. She thinks her friends are likely to be infected.

“How can I make sure I don’t get the virus?” She added, “it is always and always being met.”

Built in a stately brick building that was once a 19th-century hospital, Cobble Hill was most recently rated by the federal government as 3 out of 5 stars for overall quality, with a facility dissatisfaction rate. It is half the statewide average of nursing homes. .

That bed is in high demand-according to the state, occupying 98% -in the city where the developers saw the closure of a nursing home looking to the apartment.

Over the years, it has shown signs of innovation. At various times, teach nursing assistants massage therapy, house small alternative public high schools, attract local artists to teach dance to residents, provide music therapy, set up Alzheimer’s disease units, and depend on We were at the forefront of nursing homes to reduce An antipsychotic drug that can leave residents with dementia in the haze.

In early 2018, Cobble Hill boasted on its website that it hosted a delegation of 18 doctors and hospital administrators from Hubei Province of China-this is a global epicenter of the outbreak of coronaviruses. It’s the ground, and you’ll see best practices directly. “

Earlier this month, Daniel Albinie and his family decided to move his older father, who was not thought to have COVID-19, from a Cobble Hill facility to a family home in a nearby block. did. After he left, the family helped coordinate the Face Shield donation and will not blame the nursing home for the outbreak or its consequences.

“For me, it’s just a bad situation,” he said. “They were dealt a bad set of cards.”

Mayor Bill De Brascio of New York City said on Monday at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the situation at Cobble Hill and other nursing homes was “the deadly illness simply left or flicked at some point. You can’t pretend it’s gone with the switch. “