Jim Wright
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217 appearances
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first heard Apr 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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However, and usually staffing, although we have our challenges just like everyone else's, is perfectly fine.
However, when you have a building of 160 potentially critically ill people, and certainly a large percentage of our positives have become very ill, it's overwhelming even on a good day for staffing.
But what happened when we had our first cases was that nurses and aides, who normally will circulate among a few different facilities, were told by their facilities that if they were to
go to Canterbury and work, they would not be allowed to come back to their other facilities.
And so immediately with our first test results, when it came positive, we had a drop in our staffing, a precipitous drop in our staffing.
And then, unfortunately, a hospital system which provided practitioners for over half the patients in our building, they quarantined their physician and nurse practitioner that normally came here and would not send any other replacement physicians.
So we ended up, me and my PA ended up with the entire building quarantined.
all at once.
And so that first week was exhausting.
and very, you know, just difficult to get through day to day just because, you know, you have your hands full seeing patients writing orders and trying to keep them from crashing.
But then you're also, you know, changing patients, making sure they're hydrated, you know, helping with meal deliveries and things like that because of the understaffing with the aides and the nurses as well.
So,
It was pretty crazy.
We're in a little better shape now as far as that goes.
We've reached out beyond the state even to attract nurses.
We have a contract with a staffing agency in Connecticut, actually, that's supplying nurses for 30 days so they don't have to worry about going to different facilities.
We're putting them up in hotels.
And we've worked with the Department of Health for staffing as well.
So we're kind of climbing out of that hole a little bit.
I was able to get my wife, Jenny, who's a palliative care physician.
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