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Health News. By Chris KirkhamBenjamin Lesser.

Reuters - One night in April, as coronavirus swept through the Hammonton Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, Robyn Esaw, a double amputee, signaled for help with her bedpan. She said she hit the bedside button that turns on a red hallway light. Homed of the few remaining staff showed up - and one of them turned the light off.

Only 35 deaths in nursing homes reported last week, fewest in months

Esaw only got help, eventually, by wheeling herself to the nursing station and yelling. On another night in another room of the New Jersey home, Barbara Grimes noticed her roommate sitting in a puddle of urine, which seeped into a wound on her tailbone.

No one checked on the roommate for three hours. The woman, Grimes said, had given up on calling for help. That same month, Hammonton staffers moved David Paul and another man into a room last occupied by two residents infected with the coronavirus, one of whom later died of COVID The floors were still dirty, the bathroom littered with trash, Paul said. Paul and the other man, he said, soon tested positive themselves, and his roommate died. In all, the Hammonton outbreak resulted in infections and 39 deaths, state data shows.

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Nursing homes worldwide, filled with Nursing Homes And Facilities Are Provide For residents who are particularly vulnerable to COVID, have suffered a harrowing toll in the pandemic. In the United States, longstanding problems with staffing shortages and chronic turnover have left nursing homes especially exposed. About a quarter of nursing homes responding to a recent federal survey reported shortages of direct-care staff during at least one of the last two weeks in May, according to a Reuters analysis of survey data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A separate Reuters analysis of federal nursing home data shows that, before the virus hit, about four in 10 homes nationwide would not have met the minimum staffing regulations in California, which has among the highest standards in a nation where some states have few or no requirements for nursing staff levels.

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare and deepened these historical staffing problems, according to interviews with nearly two dozen nursing home workers and residents nationwide.]