they can avoid becoming the next canterbury and so at this point i think probably more than half of the residents who have who have passed away have done so at the facility and not gone to the hospital avula said he said that when this pandemic has passed the american public may need to consider whether there is a better approach than to warehouse our elders and to put them in small spaces to underpay their staff so that there are chronic staffing shortages its hard to know in the week or two weeks prior to this discovery how much potential transmission had been taking place and i think thats the real challenge that all of us are facing with covid19 avula said only now public officials said they realize that their defenses were porous it was purchased last year by new jerseybased marquis health services which runs 30 nursing and rehabilitation centers around the country i hope at every level we will spend a significant amount of time doing a deep dive review into lessons learned she said it really spurred on the question does it make sense for elderly residents with lots of underlying health conditions who likely will not make it through covid19 to come here for us to try to resuscitate them for us to put them on a ventilator and then ultimately to see them pass away more as nursing homes take a heavy toll early companies try to erect barriers to coronavirus as they grappled with the growing array of bad options officials said they had to factor in the risks associated with transporting frail patients to area hospitals avula turned for advice to health officials in kings county in washington state where the first major coronavirus outbreak in a us nursing home struck only in the most dire cases roth said would the team risk transport george stephanopoulos reveals covid19 diagnosis weeks after wife ali wentworth tested positive their recommendation he said was to test everyone in the facility this report was featured in the wednesday april 15 2020 episode of start here abc news daily news podcast nursing homes are fast emerging as a major source of fatal cases in the national covid19 outbreak we have cleaning crews that are disinfecting everything almost around the clock i think the lesson from canterbury is if it could happen there it could happen at any senior living facility and so it probably calls to mind a broader set of issues about things like salaries that are paid to folks who work there and a need for them to have multiple jobs and does that elevate risk factors kaine said winckler passed away in midmarch nurses started conducting temperature checks at the end of every workers shift and canterbury imposed restrictions on visitors beginning march 13 julie addington more cut off from loved ones in nursing care by coronavirus families fear the unknown addington said there was a general sense of unease in early