The COVID-19 outbreak has been especially frightening for Massachusetts nursing home residents and their families, and now the state is working with the industry to move some residents out of occupied homes and rehab facilities and turn those locations into COVID-19-only care centers.
Baker administration officials have in recent days floated the idea of using vacant nursing homes to boost medical bed capacity but in a March 27 letter, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said the state is taking “unprecedented steps” to establish skilled nursing facilities specifically to care for people with confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses.
Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Worcester is the first designated site, according to Sudders’ letter. Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and who are stable but need a nursing facility level of care will begin to be transferred from hospitals to Beaumont this week.
“Transferring patients to dedicated facilities such as Beaumont, where they can continue to receive nursing facility levels of care, including oxygen, will provide acute care hospitals with the additional capacity for incoming patients who need hospital level acute care,” Sudders wrote.
Matt Salmon, CEO of Salmon Health & Retirement, which owns Beaumont, said residents there are being transferred to sister facilities and others in the Worcester area.
“This personally has been a very, very difficult decision and I’ve been anguishing over it for a few days now, because I know the amount of disruption that this is going to cause for our residents and families who trusted us to take care of their loved ones in Worcester,” Salmon said in a Facebook post on Friday. “I can’t in my role think of any other solution that doesn’t put all of our seniors at risk, not just the ones in our buildings, but the ones throughout the Commonwealth.”
Beaumont anticipates receiving COVID-19 patients discharged from UMass Medical Center and from St. Vincent Hospital.
Tara Gregorio, president of the Mass Senior Care Association, applauded Salmon Health & Retirement for “answering the call and providing exemplary leadership during this time of crisis.”
“Conversion of a separate, self-contained health care facility will not only provide vital recovery services to those stricken with COVID-19, but will help protect the public health and the health of nursing home residents across the Commonwealth who will become increasingly vulnerable unless the curve is flattened,” Gregorio said in a statement.
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