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OSHA's Meager COVID Response In N.H. | New Hampshire Public Radio

Allegra Boverman
When Walter Riley was first asked about Villa Crest Nursing Home in Manchester the place where his fiancé, 68-year-old Marge Gardner, worked as a housekeeper before she died of Covid-19 he could scarcely contain his bitterness.
“The bastards,” he said. “They didn’t give her adequate protection. They didn’t have instructions on how to fit it. They never should have sent her in those rooms, knowing her age and her condition. They knew she had diabetes.”
In December, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, fined the nursing home $20,820 for two violations: “The employer did not ensure that an effective respiratory protection program was established with worksite-specific procedures for respirator use … such as but not limited to fit testing and medical evaluations,” and it did not report the death after eight hours. Riley, who filed the OSHA complaint two months after Gardner died on June 11, called it a � ....

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As More Vaccines Go Out, N.H. Moves to Allow Visits At More Long-Term Care Facilities

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With COVID-19 vaccination clinics for second doses nearly complete at long-term care facilities, the state says it will release new guidance in the coming weeks to standardize in-person visits from family and loved ones.
Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette said the new guidelines are in-part a reaction to a hodgepodge of policies from individual nursing homes that is creating confusion about family visits.
“One of the reasons we are doing this is so that we can have consistency, so we don’t have one family that can visit and one family that cannot visit based on just a decision within a facility,” Shibinette said during a Thursday press conference. “We want everyone to consistently have access to their elders.” ....

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Efforts to Vaccinate N.H.'s Long-Term Care Community Haven't Been Easy, For Facilities or Families

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Karen has spent the better part of her life as the chief caretaker for her sister, Erica Cunningham, who lives at Lafayette Center, a nursing home in Franconia. Erica has schizophrenia, and she’s spent most of her life in institutional care.
“It’s been a very long road,” said Jamie Cunningham, Karen and Erica’s brother. “Try and imagine being stuck in a room since the beginning of this pandemic, not being able to get outside of a room. And for someone who knows confinement, to have that even more intense, she has done incredibly well.” ....

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