Pennsylvania nursing home was flagged for dangerous conditions before coronavirus outbreak

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The Pennsylvania nursing home where all 750 residents and staffers may be infected with the coronavirus was flagged for dangerous conditions before the outbreak, records show.

Pennsylvania Health Department spokesman Nate Wardle declined to comment specifically about conditions at Brighton and the troubling findings in the Sept. 13 inspections report about this facility being highly susceptible to the spread of communicable diseases.

But, Wardle said by email,"whenever we find deficiencies at a facility, they are required to submit a plan of correction that must be approved by the department as to how they will address the issues identified," Wardle said, adding that the facility did submit a plan of action which was approved but it's not clear if the problems have been corrected.

In Beaver, Pennsylvania, Brighton was owned by the county and called Friendship Ridge until 2014, when it was bought for $37.5 million by an investment group called Comprehensive Healthcare Management that records show is based in Teaneck, New Jersey. Comprehensive Healthcare Management did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.

reported that the first figures on how many people were infected at Brighton came from the union representing workers there.of nursing homes, Brighton was deemed a facility with"a history of serious quality issues but has not been formally flagged by the government." It noted that as February 2019, it had been hit with 61 deficiencies and fined $68,000 since July 2016.

 

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How many nursing homes are infected in US?

That's not a nursing home. That is an elderly storage facility.

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Omg 😳 750 residents! This is awful!

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What did the governor do about it?

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Horrible. GovernorTomWolf

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Who ever is blaming this nursing home for this breakout because of their LAST year inspection report. Come on. Think first.

Not to mention their families and the people they have been in contact with 😬

I smell major lawsuits in the offing‼️

Light and live sent to all.

And what did Trump do to deal with it?

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