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[quote=Anonymous]As a family memer of someone who was in a nursing home for a very long time, this is somewhat problematic.

At least at the home we were with, they would quarantine when there was a flu outbreak. However, they did not have the capacity to increase staffing - and since the care needs were higher due to people being sick, the quality of care would go way downhill. Staff would also call in sick leaving them even shorter staffed. Since many of the staff work two jobs they did not want to get sick so few would pick up extra shifts during an outbreak.

Their ability to provide my family member with even basic care was very compromised during outbreaks. We did often go in anyways despite the quarantine to feed my family member and provide basic care. A number of times I found my family member had received no care - For example: 2:00 in the afternoon and still in bed, no food or liquid, not yet up and dressed - basically just left there because they hadn't gotten to her yet that day. Since the place was in quarantine, they assumed no visitors and that no one would know they were too overworked / overwhelmed / short staffed  to provide basic care to all residents. [/quote]

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