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Also Featured Sandy Isham, registered nurse in Kansas who pulled her mother out of a nursing home during the pandemic. Stephanie Igoe, former administrator at the Hallworth House, a non-profit nursing home in Providence, Rhode Island that closed in August 2020. Interview Highlights The American Health Care Association says that nursing homes could lose some 34 billion dollars over the next couple of years. And 10 times as many nursing homes, perhaps as many as 2,000 or almost 2,000, could close this year. Do those numbers make sense to you? Katie Smith Sloan: ”I would characterize the nursing home sector right now as fragile. You know, nursing homes have been through a war over the last year. Early on in COVID they were ignored by the feds, even though we knew well that older people and those with underlying health conditions were most at risk. Nursing homes lacked PPE, they lacked access to testing, and they had to scrape and scramble to keep their residents and staff safe.

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