âWe did everything we could, but we lost our momâ
COVID-19 infections and deaths have dropped at long-term care facilities in Rhode Island, but visitors are still restricted, staff is stretched too thin, and isolation is taking a toll on residents
By Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff,Updated March 12, 2021, 9:57 a.m.
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Maria Tavarozzi (left), with her mother Elena Carbone at The Cove memory care unit at the Saint Elizabeth Home in East Greenwich in 2019. Tavarozzi and her sister, Patricia Medeiros, were their mother's caregivers until the nursing home went into lockdown during the pandemic. Carbone died Jan. 31 at age 91.Patricia Medeiros