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System Failure
The mission of senior care facilities to ease residents’ twilight years turned into a nightmare after state leaders failed to adequately separate COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals.
When COVID-19 started roiling through nursing homes last winter, Cecelia Payne had more
at stake than most. And her worst fears soon became reality. Her husband, Arnold Brown, 78, died of COVID-19 on April 24, 2020, at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens after being transferred there from the Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility.
Brown, a former manufacturing tooling engineer before a stroke disabled him, had been in the Mt. Clemens skilled nursing facility since 2006. His roommate at the medical care facility died, as well. “I really do feel that he got it from a staff member,” Payne, of Macomb Township, says of her husband’s illness. “Especially when I learned his roommate had it, too.”
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Kristen Jordan Shamus and Christina Hall
Detroit Free Press
For the first time in nearly a year, visitor restrictions on nursing homes in Michigan are easing up, allowing families to see their loved ones in person again regardless of how much COVID-19 is spreading in the community, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday. We know that this virus has taken a disproportionate toll on our seniors and the isolation and the time apart has been taxing on everyone with loved ones in long-term care facilities, Whitmer said. Under the new guidelines, family members . will be able to go and visit their relatives in nursing homes after receiving a COVID-19 test.
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