Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
Ken Covinsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were four residents across these two communities where persons with dementia ingested cleaning fluid.
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Um, three deaths.
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Two separate communities?
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Two separate communities.
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Um and you know, you look at this and it's just hard not to get emotional and angry even.
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Not you know, it it it it smells of inadequate staffing and it smells, you know, that you know, these r uh it smells of almost negligent inadequate staffing.
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How do we establish standards so that you even get the basic, you know, you know, cus you know, care you need for your, you know, for your cognitive or physical functional issues?
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Just basic things that if you're entering an assisted living because you need help getting to the bathroom, when you need to go to the bathroom, you know, is there any standard out there that you don't have to sit and wait for a half hour while you're you're you're waiting to go?
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If you fall, that somebody's going to attend to you right away.
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So, you know, I'm wondering like how do we I I feel that what you what what this Delphi panel did was the step after the basic standards are met.
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And I worry that we haven't even met these basic standards.
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Well, I think Alex, I think assisted living is the chance to bring these two camps with different views together.
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Um, because whether you call it, you know, advanced care planning or just goals of care, this is a situation where I think all would agree that
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understanding what now we're in a situation where really understanding what residents want and need in real time becomes crucial.
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So that, you know, whether it's a whether it's a pulse form or whether it's knowing what's important to your residents and what makes your residence tick, of like
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Do hospitals scare you?
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Do you prefer to like if something happens, do you prefer everything done to be to stay here?
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Or do you want to go to the hospital if, you know, something happens?
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You know, a lot of assisted livings, it's acted like it's not even a choice, you know, that you know, that it's usually the default is you go to the emergency room.
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