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A Stage Set for Disaster: For‐Profit Nursing Homes, Federal Law, and COVID‐19

David Ray Papke

Journal of Elder Policy, 2021, vol. 1, issue 3, 199-222

Abstract: This article exposes the tragic relationship between for‐profit nursing homes and the spread of COVID‐19 in those facilities. For‐profit nursing homes came to dominate nursing‐home care in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. However, for‐profit nursing homes on average provided care which was inferior to the care provided in state‐run and nonprofit nursing homes. Congress attempted to address the problems in nursing homes in the final decades of the twentieth century, but massive statutes and abundant regulations served mostly to legitimize for‐profit nursing homes. COVID‐19 then underscored the flaws in the legally sanctioned, for‐profit nursing homes, as thousands died within the problematic institution's walls. Este artículo expone la trágica relación entre los hogares de ancianos con fines de lucro y la propagación del COVID‐19 en esas instalaciones. Los hogares de ancianos con fines de lucro llegaron a dominar la atención en hogares de ancianos en los Estados Unidos en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Sin embargo, los hogares de ancianos con fines de lucro en promedio brindaban atención que era inferior a la atención brindada en los hogares de ancianos administrados por el estado y sin fines de lucro. El Congreso intentó abordar los problemas en los hogares de ancianos en las últimas décadas del siglo XX, pero los estatutos masivos y las abundantes regulaciones sirvieron principalmente para legitimar los hogares de ancianos con fines de lucro. COVID‐19 luego subrayó las fallas en los asilos de ancianos con fines de lucro sancionados legalmente, ya que miles de personas murieron dentro de los muros de la institución problemática. 本文研究了营利性疗养院与2019冠状病毒病(COVID‐19)在这些设施中的传播之间的悲剧关系。营利性疗养院于20世纪下半叶开始在美国的疗养院护理中占据主导地位。不过,营利性疗养院平均提供的护理曾次于国营疗养院和非营利性疗养院。国会曾试图在20世纪最后几十年里解决疗养院产生的问题,但大量的法规和规制基本只是对营利性疗养院进行合法化。如今,COVID‐19强调了受法律批准的营利性疗养院所出现的问题,因为成千上万的人在这类有问题的机构中去世。

Date: 2021
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