It is could be about money. These nursing homes receive payments every month from SSI and Medicare. But, it is more likely about being overwhelmed by COVID-19. What is the span of time the deaths occurred? If the bodies were only in the TEMPORARY morgue for a short period of time, the nursing home was overwhelmed in moving these bodies.
The USA's Congress needs to legislate standards for handling nursing home deaths. Often morticians are called to take a person to a funeral home, COVID-19 PERMANENTLY changes the handling of bodies.
Nursing homes frequently receive admissions to their facilities from hospitals. Every person being admitted to a nursing home MUST be tested for COVID-19. Current residents MUST be tested to determine their status. The infection in SMALL COMMON RESIDENCE facilities, including group homes of any kind, must have their residents tested for the virus. If a person living in close contact facilities are proven to be positive (preferably two negative tests) they must be moved from the common areas into a quarantine room and treated until they test negative. But, the real preventative is having two negative tests before they are admitted to the facility.
In this case, the problem may be the AVAILABLE space for the dead. In other words, when a death occurs in nursing homes the body is removed by a mortician for a funeral. That is a single death over a period of time that "the system" can handle. But, if a large number of deaths are occurring all at once the system simply could not handle the transportation of the bodies to other facilities. Kindly remember the staff is not immune to having feelings about long term residents. They care for them and no doubt a whistleblower manifested at the horror of bodies being stored. I am not defending this, but, the circumstances surrounding this discovery lends itself to mishandling to attempt to isolate infection from other residents.
The corporation needs to be contacted and asked to what extent there are ill and dying residents. The corporation also needs to have a plan in place to handle this emergency otherwise the staff is simply carrying out care according to Pre-COVID 19 standards. That is not acceptable and their nursing Vice President/Director should have written standards in the face of this national emergency.
Once again these horrors are happening because there is no leadership from the federal government in how to isolate and handle this disease. Nursing home corporations are going to find themselves at a loss for new standards and procedures, especially if the facility is understaffed which can be common.
There is no excuse for this lack of leadership in DC. If the Trump Administration is lacking to lead, consultants that are qualified can be hired to shore up the poorly performing administration. The Executive Branch frequently hires “czars” to handle special circumstances. That would require spending money.
April 16, 2020
By Vincent Barone
Police reportedly discovered 17 corpses (click here) stuffed inside a small morgue at one of New Jersey’s largest nursing homes.
Officers at the Andover Township Police Department found the bodies at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center after pursuing an anonymous tip about the improper storage of corpses during the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported.
The bodies were placed in a morgue built for just four as the nursing home grappled with mounting deaths....
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Trump continues to corrupt the Executive Branch of the USA government with his nominees.
November 23, 2019
By Susan Crabtree
...Risch’s failure to schedule a vote (click here) comes as the USAGM has faced a series of embarrassing management failures and internal turmoil and currently lacks a leader. Meanwhile, conservative activists are ratcheting up the pressure on the Senate to move the long-stalled nomination. Several knowledgeable sources tell RCP that the White House wants Republicans to swiftly schedule votes and move the nomination.
John Lansing, who began serving as USAGM CEO and director in 2015, left that post in late September to head National Public Radio, and a federal judge on Friday sentenced one of his hand-selected top officials at USAGM to three months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing more than $40,000 from the agency.
Haroon Ullah, who served as Lansing’s chief strategic adviser, admitted to falsifying hotel invoices, taxi receipts and double-billing third party sponsors, as well as billing USASGM for personal trips to promote his book or for weekend getaways with little to no agency business....
To be specific, besides breaking the law, Trump's nominees are a conflict of interest to the media.
September 20, 2019
By Brian Schwartz
President Donald Trump’s nominee (click here) to lead a federal media organization has been funding his own private film company with donations from a nonprofit that he runs.
Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker with ties to Steve Bannon, has seen at least $1.6 million in donations from his nonprofit sent into the coffers of his independent production company, according to disclosure forms.
The details about Pack’s business dealings are revealed as senators review his nomination and Democrats begin to scrutinize him....
By Susan Crabtree
...Risch’s failure to schedule a vote (click here) comes as the USAGM has faced a series of embarrassing management failures and internal turmoil and currently lacks a leader. Meanwhile, conservative activists are ratcheting up the pressure on the Senate to move the long-stalled nomination. Several knowledgeable sources tell RCP that the White House wants Republicans to swiftly schedule votes and move the nomination.
John Lansing, who began serving as USAGM CEO and director in 2015, left that post in late September to head National Public Radio, and a federal judge on Friday sentenced one of his hand-selected top officials at USAGM to three months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing more than $40,000 from the agency.
Haroon Ullah, who served as Lansing’s chief strategic adviser, admitted to falsifying hotel invoices, taxi receipts and double-billing third party sponsors, as well as billing USASGM for personal trips to promote his book or for weekend getaways with little to no agency business....
To be specific, besides breaking the law, Trump's nominees are a conflict of interest to the media.
September 20, 2019
By Brian Schwartz
President Donald Trump’s nominee (click here) to lead a federal media organization has been funding his own private film company with donations from a nonprofit that he runs.
Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker with ties to Steve Bannon, has seen at least $1.6 million in donations from his nonprofit sent into the coffers of his independent production company, according to disclosure forms.
The details about Pack’s business dealings are revealed as senators review his nomination and Democrats begin to scrutinize him....
Why are monies in the CARE Act not available to the US Post Office?
By Alan Wessman
This graph (click here) shows the break down of the $2.2 trillion CARE act. There is half a trillion dollars for large corporations. The US Post Office is vital to the USA's integrity during a time when communication is through media and mail.
Recent focus on the financial troubles of the U.S. Postal Service (click here) has led to calls for its rescue by Congress. Yet this threatens to become a partisan tug-of-war. It doesn’t need to be that way.
The Postal Service began under Benjamin Franklin. It has been a great benefit to our country. We still depend on it, especially rural areas that might not be profitable for commercial delivery businesses to serve.
And in Utah, we have a wonderful, convenient vote-by-mail system that depends on the efficiency and reliability of the Postal Service.
The financial woes of the Postal Service are not due to mismanagement, but to a 2006 law that required the service, alone among government agencies, to prepay billions of dollars into a health care fund for retirees, 75 years ahead. No other agency has that burden....
The loss of the US Post Office means the loss of over 600,000 jobs. This is very different than the mass lay off of workers due to the pandemic. The loss of over 600,000 jobs with the US Post Office will effect the economy and cause considerable damage to the USA infrastructure. The US Post Office must be able to tap the half a trillion in federal funding for large corporations.
The Postal Service employs more than 600,000 workers nationwide, making it among the largest employers in some states. More than 63,000 postal service employees work in California, while another 40,000 are stationed in Texas, for example.
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