![]() “Oh yes,” she said with emphasis in a recent interview from her daughter’s home in London, Ont. market - still thinks of herself as a Vancouver Island girl. ![]() Frances Oldham Kelsey - the physician and drug investigator who kept thalidomide from the U.S. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”that the situation at Cobble Hill and other nursing homes in the city shows that “you cannot pretend that this ferocious disease is simply going to walk away at one point or just flick a switch and it’s gone.She was the girl from Cobble Hill who grew up to be one of the outstanding scientists of the 20th century.Īlthough she turned 100 last summer, Dr. “To me, it’s just a bad situation,” he said. ![]() After he left, the family helped coordinate a donation of face shields and doesn’t blame the nursing home for the outbreak or its outcome. ![]() In early 2018, Cobble Hill boasted on its website that it was hosting a delegation of 18 physicians and hospital administrators from Hubei Province, China - which would become the global epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak - “to see best practices first hand.”Įarlier this month, Daniel Arbeeny and his family decided to move his elderly father - who was not believed to have COVID-19 - from the Cobble Hill facility to the family’s home on a nearby block. It has, at various points, taught massage therapy to nursing assistants, housed a small alternative public high school, brought local artists in to teach residents dance, offered music therapy and was at the forefront of nursing homes setting up Alzheimer’s units and cutting reliance on antipsychotics that can leave residents with dementia in a haze. Over the years, it’s shown signs of innovation. Its beds are in high demand - it has 98 percent occupancy, according to the state - in a city that has seen closures in nursing homes that developers have eyed for apartments. “How could you avoid not getting the virus?” she said, adding it’s “always, always filled up.”īuilt in a stately brick building that once was a 19th-century hospital, Cobble Hill was most recently rated three out of five stars by the federal government for overall quality and the facility has a complaint rate that’s half that of the statewide average for nursing homes. She believes it’s highly likely her friend is infected. “It’s very surprising because I don’t think anyone from the facility contacted us to tell us anything like this or basically bring this to our attention in any way,” he said.Įva Buchmuller, a New York City artist whose best friend has lived in Cobble Hill with Alzheimer’s for three years, said she wasn’t that surprised the virus spread in the nursing home’s cramped quarters, with small rooms tightly packed along narrow corridors and residents not allowed to open windows. An administrator told him they were confident his uncle did not have the virus. Soon after news broke of Cobble Hill’s death toll, Steven Vince went there to talk to administrators about his recently passed uncle, whose death certificate listed him possibly having COVID. Though Tuchman doesn’t know for sure how the virus got into Cobble Hill, he noted there has been a parade of paramedics and staffers allowed into the building each day who were screened with health questions and temperature checks, not enough to keep out those who are sick but not showing symptoms.
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