Here's how nursing homes are adapting to handle COVID-19:
“When [New York State Gov.] Cuomo talks about how many people have been discharged from the hospital, he’s not talking about how many of them go to nursing homes,” Reingold says. “It’s not like you get off the ventilator and you go home and you’re fine. The ventilator causes an enormous amount of damage to the body. People that are coming here need really intensive rehabilitation before they go home.
The first thing he did was make all meals free. Employees don’t have time to go shopping, and the food stock in the grocery stores is often decimated. Knowing they can come in have lunch and dinner here takes a lot of the pressure off, Reingold says. To help residents connect with family members and friends, many facilities are using technological solutions, such as computer tablets and video-chatting apps. This may have a silver lining: “We’re finding that families are actually 'visiting' more frequently because it’s not about driving to the Hebrew Home to visit mom on Sunday,” Reingold says. “It is just popping open the iPad and checking on mom. And being able to do that five, six, seven times a week.
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