[ad_1] WHILE THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES PREPARED HOSPITALS AND OTHER SECTORS FOR COVID-19, THE VIRUSES WAS SILENTLY DISPOSED THROUGH NURSING HOMES. HOW WAS IRELAND “CAUGHT”? Sitting in her room at the St. Mary Hospital Nursing Home in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Rose Hegarty listened to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s speech on March 12 announcing the closure of schools … Read more
[ad_1] yesHaving a relative of a nursing home resident today means guilt, frustration, and fear. With nearly 2,400 residents a week dying from the virus and predictions of a higher death toll than in hospitals, the anguish of not being able to keep loved ones is compounded by struggles to find out what’s going on … Read more
[ad_1] Nursing homes Ireland has expressed concern over a memorandum ordering the rationing of personal protective equipment for infected care homes. Chief Executive Tadhg Daly said how the HSE directive described how orders for essential equipment would be based on the number of confirmed or suspected cases. He said, “Clearly, this is basically EPP rationing, … Read more
[ad_1] The Health Services Executive (HSE) says it has seen “significant growth” in requests for personal protective equipment (PPE) from homes that are not home. The agency’s director of operations, Anne O’Connor, says there are 335 long-term residential centers reporting a coronavirus outbreak. About 196 of these are in nursing homes, regarding cases between residents … Read more
[ad_1] Almost a third of nursing homes in Ireland have the Covid-19 virus, said the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa). Mary Dunnion, Hiqa’s chief social services inspector, told RTÉ that Morning Ireland staff is a real problem for nursing home providers and that faster tests would be beneficial. According to the Executive of the … Read more
[ad_1] More than 300 residents have died of suspected coronavirus at one of the UK’s largest nursing home companies, one of their bosses said today. Sir David Behan, CEO of HC One, says that 232, or about two-thirds, of the firm’s houses have Covid-19 outbreaks, with 2,447 confirmed or suspected cases. NuestroRead our coronavirus blog … Read more