Ford vows to overhaul long-term care after the pandemic to fix the ‘cracks and holes’ in the system
By Jessica Smith Cross and Sneh Duggal
Dr. Samir Sinha said that both long-term care homes and retirement homes have systemic vulnerabilities to infections that include housing older, frailer populations in close quarters. The staffing issue that the government is seeking to curb with an emergency order — staff moving between multiple homes, and potentially bringing infections with them — was a vulnerability before the pandemic, and will remain one afterwards.
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