WORCESTER — Patients of Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center are being relocated to other nursing facilities to make way for recuperating COVID-19 patients, a move upsetting several family members however one which the nursing center — dealing with the state — said is necessary to avoid the spread of the coronavirus to a vulnerable population.
” In the end, the motivation for us in moving citizens out of the structure is to secure them from infection and nearly specific death from leaving them in a structure that is going to take 90- some intakes a month,” Matt Salmon, CEO of Salmon Health and Retirement, the company which owns and runs Beaumont, said in an interview Saturday. “I can’t in good conscience take a COVID-positive population into a building with a population that is most prone to COVID complications and deaths.”
However the move, announced Friday night in a video on the Beaumont web page, has left numerous families and neighborhood members irritated.
” We’re all in this together, I comprehend that … however they require to discover empty buildings that are not occupied now, instead of kicking people out of a building that has people in it: it’s their house,” said Ashley Sabara, whose aunt has lived at Beaumont for a year.
Melissa Singley, whose grandparents as soon as lived at the assisted living home but has no relatives at the center presently, concurred.
” They’re basically conserving the COVID-19 patients over the elderly grandparents and moms and dads, which’s not right,” Singley said. “There’s an empty DCU Center, empty hotels, empty dorms — why aren’t we using those resources instead of uprooting individuals who view this as a house?”
The move highlights the way that coronavirus is overthrowing life in the commonwealth.
Tara Gregorio, president of the Massachusetts Senior Citizen Care Association, stated the choice to move locals from Beaumont was the latest of a series of choices made over the last three weeks to attempt to protect susceptible nursing home citizens from coronavirus.
” We wish to launch these independent COVID-19 centers so we don’t introduce (the virus) into our nursing centers where citizens are susceptible and — as has been seen in other parts of the country — where this virus has been deadly,” Gregorio stated in an interview. She noted that all of New york city’s nursing homes