Those who had been exposed to residents with covid-19 were placed back on units with healthy residents. One nursing aide was allowed back on the job even though she had tested positive for the coronavirus two days earlier, the inspection found. The conditions placed 128 of 154 residents at the facility in immediate jeopardy, according to regulators. AD“The facility didn’t have a policy or protocol for the management of COVID negative and positive residents,” according to the inspection report. Leaders at the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs need to be held accountable, he said.

Source: Washington Post July 21, 2020 16:55 UTC