"Throughout the pandemic, nursing homes have been hotspots for the virus, with a large percentage of the deaths, but workers and their unions have complained they don't have proper protective equipment." #GetMePPE ideastream.org/news/nursing-h…
"Chaundra Kidd, a nursing assistant at Cityview Healthcare and Rehabilitation in Cleveland, said staff at her facility often do not have enough personal protective equipment or PPE."
"If you're going to work on the COVID unit, you may not even have all the essentials that you need to work on that unit,” Kidd said. “You got to go scrounge around trying to find the PPE. There's just not enough of everything, period."
"A recent study of data complied from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that about 34 percent of Ohio nursing homes had only a one-week supply of personal protective equipment for their workers, during a four-week period during August and September."
"In our jobs, it doesn't matter if you're diabetic, you still have to go into work, you still have to do what you've gotta do,” she said. “All I can do is keep my hands washed, keep my sanitizer by me, and glove up, mask up, gown up," she said."
"Nursing home workers often earn less than registered nurses or other healthcare workers, said Anthony Caldwell, Director of Public Affairs for SEIU District 1199, the union which represents some healthcare workers in nursing homes."
“But the type of work that nursing home workers do is just so critically important to the seniors and people with disabilities that are in these facilities that really need them,” Caldwell said."

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4 Nov
"Thousands of nursing homes nationwide are dealing with horrific shortages of masks, gowns and other items they need to protect residents, workers and the broader community from COVID-19." #ProtectAllWorkers #GetMePPE uspirg.org/feature/usp/nu…
"As of late August, 226,495 residents in 2,981 nursing homes nationwide were at risk because the homes had dangerously low supplies of one or more types of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 masks or gowns, according to data submitted to the federal government."
"The shortages actually became more grave as the summer went on, with three times as many nursing homes reporting they were completely out of masks, gowns and eye protection in late August, compared with mid-July."
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19 Oct
Press Release | Nursing Home staffing and PPE Shortages Continue, New Data Shows. Nursing Home Workers Express Alarm as COVID19 Cases Surge in Ohio and Nationwide.

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A new analysis of CMS data by AARP and the Ohio University Scripps Gerontology Center shows that many nursing home facilities lack needed PPE. Concurrently, projections and modeling data show that COVID19 transmission may dramatically increase this fall and winter.
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"Many nursing assistants make less than $15 an hour, and there's high staff turnover."
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"While there’s considerable variation between states, a new analysis of public data on Wednesday showed that nursing homes have reported some form of personal protective equipment (PPE) shortage in every state within the last month." #GetMePPE skillednursingnews.com/2020/10/nursin…
"Across the U.S., 25.5% of nursing homes had a PPE shortage during this reporting period."
"N95 masks remain an issue for facilities, as 11.4% of nursing homes across the country reported shortages of this equipment category. Gowns came next, with 7.4% of facilities nationally reporting that they did not have a week’s supply."
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11 Oct
“NURSING HOME WORKERS face a higher risk for COVID-19 than most Americans, providing essential care in hazardous conditions and at lower pay than they deserve, says David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.” health.usnews.com/hospital-heroe…
“Giving them a living wage, decent benefits and adequate personal protective equipment is not only the right thing to do, it would help keep long-term care residents safer amid the pandemic, too, he says.”
“Thanks to COVID-19, nursing home workers now have the most dangerous job in America, Grabowski and co-authors declared in a July 28 opinion piece in the Washington Post.”
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Nursing home workers did not receive the recognition they deserved prior to this pandemic but they have been bravely providing health care services and support. 7,761 nursing home staff members have contracted COVID19 since this crisis began. #Union cleveland.com/datacentral/20…
"The state began tracking nursing home cases by facility on April 15. There have been 13,081 patient cases and 7,761 staff cases since then. This is up from 12,529 and 7,484 one week ago."
"This week’s report listed 2,677 deaths for cases since April 15. Separately, the department has said another 369 patient deaths pre-date the start of the more detailed tracking on April 15." #GetMePPE #UnionsForAll
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