CMA Report: Geography Is Not Destiny - Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic
The Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA) has released a new report, "Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic."
The report explores facilities’ responses to the coronavirus crisis and examines how residents’ deaths were not “inevitable”, as some have claimed. The report contends that COVID-19 exploited and exacerbated long-standing issues, such as staffing, infection control and management problems, that existed for decades in the long-term care industry.
The report:
- Analyzes and challenges the assertion that “Geography is Destiny” as the prevailing theory of nursing home transmission (concluding “a facility’s location does not equate to a facility’s fate”)
- Identifies lessons learned for nursing homes
- Provides specific policy recommendations for change
The report’s inquiry spans across frameworks of category, scale, and scope – from the highest-level decisions made by those in top governmental posts, to the minute individual choices and circumstances of nursing home residents and staff themselves. The policy recommendations provided also cover this span.
To read the report, click here.
To read the press release, click here.
To learn more about CMA, click here.
The John A. Hartford Foundation supports CMA through this grant.
