Report: Leadership failed to control outbreak at vets home
An independent investigative report says the leadership of a home for aging veterans in Massachusetts where nearly 80 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died made “substantial errors and failures” as the disease began to spread, likely contributing to the high death toll. The report released Wednesday says the superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home wasn’t qualified to manage a long-term care facility and he and his leadership team made decisions that were “utterly baffling from an infection-control perspective.” Among them was a decision to move veterans from one dementia unit into another, both of which housed veterans who already had the virus.
-Associated Press
