Geriatrician Jesse Zanker was part of a medical team parachuted into aged care homes with COVID-19 outbreaks. He details what he saw
Department of Health and Human Services guidelines – last updated on August 12 – state that decisions on whether to transfer COVID-19 positive residents to hospital will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Dr Zanker has witnessed many of these transfers. But he says clinicians are rarely involved, let alone the residents themselves. He says even when hospital transfers are elective rather than because the resident needs hospital care or presents a health risk to others, the needs of the residents are often not taken into account.
"But they are privately run facilities, the facility managers can pick up the phone and call an ambulance if they think that a resident's condition has changed."
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