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.