"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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