WINFIELD – A Putnam County woman says she was unwittingly exposed to methamphetamine during her stay at a Hurricane rehab facility while she recovered from congestive heart failure.
BILL BEACH, 83, of Huntington, widower of Nellie Jean Beach, died Oct. 19 in the Teays Valley Center, Hurricane, W.Va. He was a jewelry salesman. Funeral services will be conducted
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David Meyers, M.D.
The nursing assistant spoke through tears as she shared her experience. She was unsure which was worse, the isolation and fear she experienced this spring as her facility went into COVID-19 lock-down, or the anxiety she felt this summer when she worried that members of her community held her responsible for harming the residents for whom she cared.
While all of us have been impacted by COVID-19, the pandemic has been particularly difficult for America’s nursing homes. Advanced age, underlying frailty, and communal living conditions make nursing home residents especially vulnerable, and their reliance on nursing home staff members put these caregivers at high risk. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 125,000 nursing home residents and nearly 1,500 staff.