The Trump administration is ordering health inspectors to focus on infection-control practices at nursing homes and hospitals — particularly those where coronavirus infections have been identified.
The Trump administration said Wednesday that inspectors will be dispatched to determine whether staff at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., followed infection control rules in the weeks leading up to deaths of residents there from COVID-19.The Trump administration said Wednesday that inspectors will be dispatched to determine whether staff at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., followed infection control rules in the weeks leading up to deaths of residents there from COVID-19.
"The links in that [supply] chain are getting a little weaker," said Randy Bury, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which runs skilled rehabilitation facilities and other elderly care centers in 24 states.
"Some of them have been quite reluctant to comply," said Janet Snipes, the executive director of Holly Heights Nursing Center in Denver.
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