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141 - Rethinking Nursing Homes Post-COVID-19
Season 2 · Episode 141

141 - Rethinking Nursing Homes Post-COVID-19

Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

August 20, 202015m 29s

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Show Notes

Nursing homes and other long term care facilities have been heavily impacted by COVID-19 in part because of inherent weaknesses in their structure and management that leave residents vulnerable to infectious diseases. Most private companies also have a financial model that is critically challenged by the pandemic. Dr. David Grabowski, a health policy researcher and professor at Harvard, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how COVID-19 has exposed an existential crisis facing U.S. nursing homes.