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.
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Residents in the nursing home that was the site of the first COVID-19 outbreak in the US are reportedly fully vaccinated after receiving the second dose more than 10 months after first COVID-19 case
By esnodgrass@businessinsider.com (Erin Snodgrass) of INSIDER |
Residents in the nursing home that was the site of the first COVID-19 outbreak in the US are reportedly fully vaccinated after receiving the second dose more than 10 months after first COVID-19 case
Residents and staff at a Washington long-term care facility received the second vaccine dose Monday, reports said.
Emotional moment as residents, staffers at Life Care Center of Kirkland get second dose of vaccine
The Life Care Center in Kirkland was the epicenter for the first coronavirus outbreak in the country.
KIRKLAND, Wash. - Residents and staffers at Life Care Center of Kirkland got their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, a symbolic step in the fight against COVID-19.
The facility was the first in the country to report an outbreak of the virus. This shot is for everybody. I’m ready, said Alice Cortez, a nurse manager, as she was receiving the shot.
When asked, how it makes her feel, she replied, relieved.
5:49 pm UTC Jan. 19, 2021
EVERETT, Wash. – Hundreds were ill and six had died in China when a 35-year-old man touched down in Seattle after a three-month trip to visit family in Wuhan. He got sick the next day, a Thursday, saw a doctor Sunday and was admitted to the hospital Monday.
He traveled alone. He lived alone. He went into isolation. Alone.
At Providence Regional Medical Center, he spoke to doctors on the other side of the glass window through a telehealth robot and asked for a phone to call family.
It was Jan. 20, 2020, and the United States first known case of the novel coronavirus had been reported in Snohomish County, an area of fewer than a million residents north of Seattle, flanked by the Puget Sound on the west and the Cascade Mountains on the east.
Life Care Center of Kirkland to administer second vaccine doses as statewide rollout lags
Vaccination progressing, state addresses lag
The Life Care Center of Kirkland is administering the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to its patients and staff. Meanwhile, the state addresses the slow vaccine roll out after receiving public criticism. Since it first happened to now it seems like an eternity, said Nancy Butner, who managed the March 2020 Covid-19 outbreak at the facility last year.
Life Care Center was the nation s first epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 40 residents died in the first month alone.
Butner is now the Northwest Division Vice President of Life Care Centers of America, and will also receive her second shot on Monday.