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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am Posts: 35446
This doco went out here tonight. First of two parts. It was really tough to watch. So many needless deaths. Wear a mask lads. Fuck the politics. Show this to anyone that won’t.
It appears that when COVID-19 struck the locked dementia units, the Home’s leaders’ focus shifted from any attempt to prevent the spread of the virus within those units to preparing for the deaths of scores of residents. Social workers were assigned to contact family members to discuss end-of-life preferences.10 On the afternoon of the consolidation, 13 additional body bags were delivered to the 1- North unit.11 A refrigerated truck, intended to supplement the limited capacity of the Home’s morgue, arrived on Saturday, March 28.1
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We have identified the following as the most serious errors during the COVID-19 response at the Soldiers’ Home:
1. Combining two locked dementia units containing veterans with a mix of COVID19 statuses, and failing to ensure an appropriate standard of care on the newly combined unit
The worst decision made during the Soldiers’ Home’s response to COVID-19 occurred on the afternoon of Friday, March 27, 2020. On that afternoon, Chief Nursing Officer Vanessa Lauziere decided that—because a number of staff members had called in sick for the evening shift that was about to begin— 115 one of the Home’s two locked dementia units (2-North) would be closed and consolidated with the other (1-North).
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This decision was a catastrophe. Staff described the move as “total pandemonium,” “when hell broke loose,” and “a nightmare.”850 One staff member remembered thinking, “How can they do this because this [is] the most insane thing I ever saw in my entire life.”851 She “felt it was like moving the concentration camp—we are moving these unknowing veterans off to die. I will never get those images out of my mind—what we did, what was done to those veterans.”852 Other witnesses, including the Interim Administrator brought in three days later to stabilize the situation, described the combined unit as resembling a “war zone.”853 A number of witness accounts suggest that veterans on the combined unit did not receive sufficient nursing care, hydration, or pain relief medications during the weekend of March 28 and 29.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19720 Location: Cumberland, RI
Someone I know just died in a dementia unit at an assisted-living facility. We thought COVID at first, but it turns out he fell and hit his head. This is my mom's best friend's husband. Someone else my wife knows was just straight-up fucking murdered in cold blood last week. Life is great, thanks for asking!
Joined: Thu January 10, 2013 2:19 am Posts: 8892 Location: SOUTH PORTLAND
Simple Torture wrote:
Someone I know just died in a dementia unit at an assisted-living facility. We thought COVID at first, but it turns out he fell and hit his head. This is my mom's best friend's husband. Someone else my wife knows was just straight-up fucking murdered in cold blood last week. Life is great, thanks for asking!
Thinking about the wave of deaths coming in August. I'd like to pick a different number
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
At this rate I think 200k by September and 350k by the end of the year would be a conservative estimate.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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