âThe most important thing was making sure that a son or a daughter or whoever was sitting at the bedside with their resident. We had no resident in DroimnÃn who died alone,â she said.
Eveline Sheeran, general manager at Brookhavenâs Talbot Lodge home in Malahide, Co Dublin, returned to work âon the floorâ as a nurse to help manage the virus outbreaks.
âThe staff were just phenomenal. You had people knowingly coming into a situation where they were putting themselves at risk and they did that for the love of the residents,â she said.
Among those affected was Deirdre OâCallaghan, director of care at DroimnÃn, who contracted the virus in the early stages of the outbreak. Acting directors of care at Abbeybreaffy, Selda Babu, and at Teaghlach Uilinn, Saju Joseph, managed their respective homes during their outbreaks.
Covid-19: Laois nursing home emerges from outbreak that led to 17 deaths Challenge of supporting facilities experiencing outbreaks ‘very significant’, HSE says
Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 21:57
Some 71,600 first dose vaccinations have been administered in nursing homes and other long-term residential care facilities. Photograph: iStock
A Co Laois nursing home hit by a “horrendous” Covid-19 outbreak that led to the deaths of 17 residents in just 20 days was “through it now”, the healthcare manager behind the home has said.
The surviving 48 residents at Droimnín Nursing Home in Stradbally, all of whom caught the virus during the post-Christmas outbreak, have emerged from post-Covid 14-day isolation.
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A quarter of residents at a Laois nursing home have died as a result of Covid-19.
16 out of 65 people in Droimnín Nursing Home Stradbally have now lost their lives.
Staff continue to live on site in an effort to combat the outbreak.
Chief Executive of Brookhaven Healthcare Group, who runs the facility Gearoid Brennan says the remaining residents that contracted the virus are almost all out of the covid zone .
He also confirmed some of the 36 staff who were ill are beginning to return to work but at least two remain seriously unwell.
COVID: The outbreak first began on New Year s Eve.