Warnings of overrun hospitals were 'an error' that resulted in the spread of coronavirus in nursing homes, AHCA President and CEO Mark Parkinson said
Warnings of overrun hospitals were "an error" that resulted in the spread of coronavirus in nursing homes, and those who issued them should face "some accountability," AHCA President and CEO Mark Parkinson said Sunday.
"The country was too concerned with hospitals being overrun, and there were consequences to that," the former Kansas governor told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "One of the consequences is that nursing homes were left out. Our residents weren't a high priority for testing. We weren't given the equipment that we needed."The American Health Care Association is an association of providers of long-term care and post-acute care.
"There needs to be some accountability for all of these people that were making these fantastic estimates that the entire hospital system across the country was going to be overrun. It wasn't, and there are consequences and, unfortunately, nursing home residents are one of the consequences," he said.
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