Monday, May 18, 2020
This is socialized medicine: Nurses give inside look at ‘nightmare’ NYC-run adult-care center
Nurses give inside look at ‘nightmare’ NYC-run adult-care center
By Georgett Roberts, Carl Campanile and Kate Sheehy
May 17, 2020 | 7:28pm | Updated
The Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center on Roosevelt Island.
RICHARD HARBUS
Out-of-state nurses brought to Manhattan to fight the coronavirus say they found hellish conditions at the city-run adult-care center on Roosevelt Island — from patients with horrific bed sores to feces-smeared walls.
“It was just heartbreaking,†said one of the RNs, a mom of four from Wisconsin who spent about 17 days at the Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center.
“Patients were in deplorable conditions — very, very dirty, bed sores, terrible odors,’’ the FEMA-contracted nurse, 38, told The Post.
https://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/2020/05/this-is-socialized-medicine-nurses-give.html
