Dr. Michael Wasserman is president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine. When asked if he thought that was a good idea, he answered, "No."
He also told the I-Team, "Moving a person who has COVID into a facility that doesn't have COVID will ultimately result in some people dying. That's just, it's medically wrong and it's ethically wrong."
Dr. Wasserman has been trying to get the governor's ear, to send his plan for "What California needs to do to protect its nursing home population".
Among the ideas:
- Split the populations so that COVID-19 patients are "either in completely separate facilities or in separate wings of the same building."
- "The coronavirus patients must be served by completely different staff members."
Dr. Wasserman says as it stands now, if he were able, he would bring a family member home from most skilled nursing facilities because of COVID-19.
"Is she was in 95% of the nursing homes in the state of California, I would have her out of there in a heartbeat," said Dr. Wasserman
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