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All eyes are on this Democrat Governors now –
did these shocking decisions cause the US outbreak?
BY MISSY CRANE
MARCH 14, 2021
There’s a great deal of scrutiny right now over Democrat governors and their “nursing home” scandals. The biggest magnifying glass is on New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, and some eyeballs are starting to look at Michigan’s Governor Whitmer as well — she’s actually in some very big trouble. But overall, Americans want to know why these governors placed COVID-sick people into vulnerable nursing homes, which obviously resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.
Here’s the quick skinny on the nursing home scandals and generally how they worked: Several Dem governors instructed nursing homes to take-in COVID patients after they were being discharged from the hospital. These nursing homes were taking-in patients that no longer needed “acute care.” The supposed goal of this program was to transition patients to “alternative settings.”
But you have to wonder what the heck these Dem governors were thinking by stuffing highly-contagious people into a place with vulnerable elderly people. Those elderly Americans were basically “sitting ducks.” This is what Cuomo and Whitmer are being scrutinized for. But there’s another Dem governor who’s been flying under the radar on this very topic, and now, some are wondering if his actions actually caused the US outbreak.
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee is in the hot seat.
On March 30, 2020, Inslee issued a proclamation deeming it “necessary to immediately waive and suspend portions of licensing statutes and rules relating to health care facilities” throughout the state. He also moved to “immediately waive and suspend portions of the licensing and administrative statutes relating to health care facilities to remove barriers to adding health care facilities and beds to meet the demands of the COVID-19 response.”
What’s amazing is Inslee and his team at DOH saw the outbreak at Life Care and still asked nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. The Seattle Times says these decisions contributed to roughly half of the state’s 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths to the nursing home policy because “nearly 200 nursing homes” had “at least one outbreak.” Some had multiple outbreaks. Very few long-term care facilities in the state have gone without any COVID infections. But in King County, where Seattle is located, “455 people connected to nursing homes have died, account for a third of the county’s total deaths.”
While New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) deserves scrutiny, especially because he oversees the largest metropolitan city in America – NYC – scrutiny also needs to be given to Gov. Jay Inslee. Washingtonians deserve to know just how deep this runs. Americans deserve to know how this outbreak impacted the rest of the nation, especially since Life Care was where this all started for the United States. And Inslee needs to be held personally accountable for every single one of these deaths.
“Our primary strategy to create capacity in acute care hospitals is working with participating patients and families to transition to nursing homes,” a March 20, 2020 memo stated. “Once in the nursing home, Home and Community Services staff will work the eligible individual and their family to transition to a permanent home and community-based setting of their choice.”
In exchange for taking in those patients, nursing home facilities would receive an additional $100 Medicare add-on for up to six months, The Post Millennial. That funding was part of two Medicaid waivers the state filed. The state will be requesting enhanced Medicaid match through an 1115 Waiver and eligibility and procedural flexibility through an 1135 Waiver. The 1115 waiver would provide enhanced federal funding for local health jurisdictions and services and to create capacity by expanding patient discharge from hospitals.
Additionally, it would be used to pay outside vendor rates and/or cover overtime wages for health care personnel. The 1135 waiver would provide flexibility by allowing individuals to self-attest eligibility, waive CMS face-to-face requirements, increase eligibility levels for specific categories within geographic regions, extend redetermination timelines for current enrollees, suspend CHIP premium payment requirements, and other procedural requirements. We ask that both waivers be approved.
But as the Town Hall piece goes on to say…there’s a “kicker” in this story that has people wondering, if Inslee is responsible for the outbreak. Here’s the kicker: that directive was made roughly one month after the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington saw a massive coronavirus outbreak. The Life Care outbreak was dubbed America’s “epicenter” for the Wuhan coronavirus, which officially began on February 19, 2020.
The Life Care Center had two outbreaks, with a total of 156 confirmed COVID cases in its facility, with 101 being residents and the other 55 being staff members, KING-TV reported. The nursing home facility amassed “46 deaths between residents, staff, and visitors.”
On March 24, 2020, a little more than a month after the Life Care outbreak, the Department of Health issued guidelines for how nursing home patients should be accepted into nursing homes. “Long-term care facilities should admit residents with COVID-19 who are no longer acutely ill back to their long-care residence,” the guidelines stated. “The decision to admit should be based on clinical care needs rather than the need for transmission-based precautions.”
At this time, testing was scarce, so nursing homes were ordered to accept patients 7-days after the onset of their symptoms and “72 hours since resolution of fever without antipyretics and symptoms proving.” But on March 30, 2020, Governor Inslee issued a proclamation saying it was “necessary to immediately waive and suspend portions of licensing statutes and rules relating to health care facilities” throughout the state of Washington.
In addition, Inslee moved to “immediately waive and suspend portions of the licensing and administrative statutes relating to health care facilities to remove barriers to adding health care facilities and beds to meet the demands of the COVID-19 response.” He was just hell-bent on flooding these nursing homes with sick people. Why?
And the most amazing part of all of this is that Inslee and his team at DOH literally saw the outbreak at Life Care happening in real-time and still kept ordering nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. In a civilized country, this would be called a “mass murderer plot.”
The Town Hall piece says “The Seattle Times” declared the decisions made by Inslee contributed to about half of the state’s 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths and are directly tied to the nursing home policy. There you have it – is this yet another Dem governor killing his citizens?
“The Seattle Times” goes on to say that 200 nursing homes had at least one outbreak – and some nursing homes had multiple outbreaks. But they just kept packing them with sick people… The question now is this: Why did Governor Inslee create these outbreak situations and then WATCH as COVID spread like wildfire in these nursing homes. And instead of stopping the program, he doubled down.
His little neck of the woods was the start of the outbreaks…and by all accounts, it looks like he literally CREATED them. Why would a governor do this to his people? Did Inslee create the perfect storm that resulted in the massive US outbreak?
We need answers immediately from Inslee and all of these Dem governors who did this to elderly Americans.
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MAYOR WALSH DECLARES RACISM A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS.
Building on a commitment to make Boston a national leader in battling racism,
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced immediate actions to address the impact racism has on the health and well-being of residents in the city, including declaring racism an emergency and a public health crisis in the City of Boston.
“In Boston, we embrace the opportunity this moment and this movement offers us,” said Mayor Walsh. “We stand with our Black community and communities of color to lead the change toward a more just and equitable society. With these actions, we will increase equity in public safety and public health, and launch a conversation that can produce lasting, systemic change to eliminate all the ways that racism and inequality harm our residents.”
Following President Obama’s call to mayors to pursue policing reforms, Mayor Walsh has signed the “Mayor’s Pledge” issued by the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance. When President Obama started My Brother’s Keeper in 2014, Mayor Walsh made a commitment to work to address the persistent opportunity gaps faced by youth in Boston.
The “Mayor’s Pledge” commits the City of Boston to the following actions:
* Review police use of force policies
* Engage communities by including a diverse range of input, experiences, and stories
* Report review findings to the community and seek feedback
* Reform police use of force policies.
Additionally, Mayor Walsh declared his support for the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus’ “10 Point Plan” which outlines — a series of reforms at the federal, state and municipal levels. As part of Mayor Walsh’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget that will be resubmitted on June 15, 2020, Mayor Walsh will reallocate 20% or $12 million of the Boston Police Department’s overtime budget to make a significant investment in equity and inclusion across the City. These investments include:
$3 million for the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) to begin implementation of the eight strategies outlined in Boston’s declaration of racism as a public health crisis,
$1 million to support trauma teams and counseling services at the Boston Public Health Commission
$2 million in new funding for community based programs and supports through City departments, such as violence intervention grants, youth programming, language and food access, immigrant advancement, the Age Strong Commission and the Human Rights Commission.
$2 million for additional BEST Clinicians and mental health supports at the Boston Police Department
$2 million to support economic development initiatives to support minority and women owned businesses and;
$2 million to provide additional housing supports and youth homelessness programs.
Accompanying Mayor Walsh’s declaration of racism as an emergency and a public health crisis are eight strategies that are focused on addressing the impact that racism has on the lives of residents and their overall health.
This work will be led by BPHC in partnership with all city departments and supported by redirecting $3 million of Boston Police Overtime funding in
FY21 Budget resubmission.
1. Create policy solutions to dismantle systemic racism and barriers to public health by evaluating current policies and using data to drive change.
2. Develop a “Boston Health Equity Now” plan that includes clear objectives and measurable goals to address the root causes of the inequities that cause disparities in health outcomes.
3. Engage historically marginalized communities to identify problems, solutions and support a community driven response.
4. Require public reporting of race and ethnicity data that documents health inequities in Boston by working with hospitals and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to access this critical information.
5. Analyze data to better understand the interconnectedness of societal, environmental and behavioral factors that contribute to the impact of
racism and access to jobs, food, housing, transit and education.
6. Improve access to prevention and treatment that is culturally and linguistically competent.
7. Develop services and programs to address the negative impact these inequities have had on specific populations.
8. Advocate at the state and federal level for policies and funding opportunities that directly combat systemic racism.
BPHC will release a plan within the next 120 days with specific actions related to the Boston Health Equity Now plan. In addition, BPHC will release a yearly report on measures of progress and challenges in addressing these systemic barriers starting in 2021. “Racism is a driving force that shapes access to the social determinants of health and is a barrier to health equity for all Bostonians,” said Marty Martinez, Chief of Health & Human Services. “This declaration will bring this work into greater focus with real, intentional efforts to get to the root causes and see measurable solutions.”
In May 2020, Mayor Walsh created a new COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force to provide guidance to the City of Boston on addressing current inequities in data analysis, testing sites, and health care services for Blacks, Latinos, Asians and immigrants. With the support of the Task Force, the City has strengthened its focus on the inequities that COVID-19 has exposed and helped to increase resources like the number of testing sites and availability of testing in communities most impacted by the virus.
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WE ARE In A SPIRITUAL WAR: Were you aware that if a spiritual DEPARTURE from God is what got us into this “mess,” only a spiritual RETURN to Him can get us out of it.
AMEN IN JESUS’S NAME
