Marysville nursing home, with history of short staffing, cited for ‘squalid’ conditions in COVID-19 outbreak By Asia Fields, The Seattle Times
Published: February 9, 2021, 2:45pm
Share: The Marysville Care Center on Grove Street in Marysville. (Mike Siegel/Seattle Times/TNS)
Months before she died, Lourdes Yldefonzo Arganda assured her sister she would be safe in her job at a Marysville nursing home.
Even before the pandemic, she had accepted that her work as a certified nursing assistant with long and late hours, and low pay was a calling, her sister Irene Yldefonzo Arganda said.
If anything bothered her, it was that co-workers sometimes could not help patients quickly enough during busy shifts.
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Donna Bartinski, 80, and her 88-year-old husband Mike, longtime residents of Sprague, have had a family doctor in Roseau, Minn., for decades.
A Manitoba couple doesn’t want to be forced into lockdown every time they get their medication.
A Manitoba couple doesn’t want to be forced into lockdown every time they get their medication.
Donna Bartinski, 80, and her 88-year-old husband Mike, longtime residents of Sprague, have had a family doctor in Roseau, Minn., for decades.
Over the years, as the couple has been treated for heart conditions and cancer, they have grown used to travelling 20 minutes south of the Canada-U.S. border for checkups, prescriptions and other health-care needs thanks to a long-standing agreement with U.S.-based Altru Health.
More than 20 Massachusetts businesses and nursing homes have been cited by OSHA for coronavirus-related violations, according to reports. Most of the businesses.
Nearly 3,000 residents of Genesis Healthcare nursing homes have died from covid-19. The company's CEO got a $5.2 million "retention" payment in October, then announced he was retiring in January.