Nursing Home Safety During COVID: PPE Shortages

Massachusetts nursing homes, along with thousands nationwide, have  dangerous shortages of masks, gowns and other items they need to protect residents, workers and the broader community from COVID-19. When nursing homes don’t have enough personal protective equipment (PPE), it leads to outbreaks among residents and staff, worker quarantines and shortages, and more risk to workers’ and residents’ families and neighborhoods.
In the spring, outbreaks in nursing homes made state and national headlines. Now, seven months into this pandemic, PPE shortages have become much worse, according to “Nursing Home Safety During COVID: PPE Shortages,” a report by MASSPIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group.