Adrian, MI – Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently vetoed Republican-sponsored legislation that would have let nursing homes house coronavirus-infected residents only in a separate building from where other residents live.
The Democratic governor said she had protected nursing home residents and the bill was “based on the false premise that isolation units created within existing facilities are somehow insufficient to protect seniors.”
It would have required the state health department, by September 1st, to ensure there is at least one dedicated facility for COVID-19 patients in each of eight regions to care for people ineligible for admission to a hospital, nursing home or adult foster care facility.
The bill was a response to the governor’s order that lets people with the virus be transferred and isolated in certain “hub” nursing homes that also have non-infected residents.
State Representative Bronna Kahle spoke with WLEN News, and expressed her disappointment with the veto…
More than 2,000 of Michigan’s coronavirus-related deaths are linked to nursing homes. A Whitmer-created task force is due to make recommendations by the end of the month on how to prepare nursing homes for any future wave of cases.
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