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Families want answers after loved ones die from coronavirus in Metro Detroit nursing homes
ClickOnDetroit
May 5, 2020, 6:36 pm
Local 4 Defender Reporting Team
Maples lost her 65-year-old sister, Sharon. She has a lot of questions for her sister’s Wayne County nursing home, including how she could have gotten COVID-19.
“That’s my question,” said Maples. “The nurses were supposed to be tested, temperature wise, cough and everything. Evidently, they wasn’t tested because the only person was allowed to go in there was the nurse and the doctor.”
Maples said she didn't learn her sister had coronavirus until after she died.
”You didn’t send me no paperwork, nothing telling me, ‘Well, this is what happened,’” Maples said.
Steven Angeleri’s mother is in the hospital with COVID-19. She was transferred from a Macomb County nursing home. He too has questions for her nursing home and the spread of COVID-19.
“I said to them every time I called, ‘Do you have any cases or sickness in your nursing home there, patients ill?' ‘No, everybody is fine, they’re all locked down, everybody’s OK,’”, Angeleri said.
“That’s my question,” said Maples. “The nurses were supposed to be tested, temperature wise, cough and everything. Evidently, they wasn’t tested because the only person was allowed to go in there was the nurse and the doctor.”
Maples said she didn't learn her sister had coronavirus until after she died.
”You didn’t send me no paperwork, nothing telling me, ‘Well, this is what happened,’” Maples said.
Steven Angeleri’s mother is in the hospital with COVID-19. She was transferred from a Macomb County nursing home. He too has questions for her nursing home and the spread of COVID-19.
“I said to them every time I called, ‘Do you have any cases or sickness in your nursing home there, patients ill?' ‘No, everybody is fine, they’re all locked down, everybody’s OK,’”, Angeleri said.
Read the report here: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders/2020/05/05/families-want-answers-after-loved-ones-die-from-coronavirus-in-metro-detroit-nursing-homes/