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Healthcare heroes: Voices of the caregivers who got us through COVID-19
Posted May 09, 2021
‘COVID is a slow-moving disaster that slowly wears you down’ It has been frustrating seeing human beings, people who have died from COVID who could have been saved by masking, distancing, and later vaccinating, said Dr. William Paolo, acting chair of emergency medicine at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY.
Dr. William Paolo, associate professor of emergency medicine; associate professor of public health and preventive medicine and interim chairman of emergency medicine, Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY
As a teen I was a bit of a hypochondriac and developed a fascination with microbes. I went to medical school to learn about them. I fell in love with emergency medicine. I’ve been with Upstate since 2009.
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At homes whose five stars masked serious problems, residents developed bed sores so severe that their bones were exposed. Others lost the ability to move.
But the most important impact may be that the nursing home industry was ill equipped for the pandemic. The rating system allowed facilities to score high grades without upgrading the care they provided.
“They were working to improve their ratings, but not their quality,” said Charlene Harrington, who sits on a board that advises C.M.S. on the ratings system.
“The problems with the five-star system left these homes less prepared in the pandemic,” she said. “They were allowed to not have enough staffing, and they were allowed to ignore infection-control deficiencies, so they had poorer quality than the public knew about, and they were in the worst position to manage Covid.”