https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ut ... d-n1241095Former Superintendent Bennett Walsh, a Marine, and the home’s ousted medical director, Dr. David Clinton, were each charged with five counts of “wantonly or recklessly” causing or permitting bodily harm and five counts of neglect or mistreatment of an older or disabled person, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced.
Walsh, 50, and Clinton, 71, are accused of making the “disastrous decision” on March 27 to mix patients already displaying symptoms with healthy patients and accelerate the spread of Covid-19 through the center.
Veterans murdered at HOLYOKE SOLDIERS HOME
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/24/ ... iers-home/The report concluded that Walsh was unqualified to lead the home and that the Baker administration, which appointed Walsh and his overseers, knew of his shortcomings well before the outbreak, one of the worst in the country. Walsh had no previous health care experience and is believed to have been tapped by the Baker administration in part through his family’s deep political connections in the region.
management merged two locked dementia units on March 27, a decision investigators described as a catastrophe. The report called the conditions in the combined unit “deplorable” with insufficient amounts of morphine and comfort medications to tend to dying veterans.
The decision meant 40 veterans were crowded into a space designed to hold 25, providing what the report called the “opposite of infection control.” A recreational therapist who was instructed to help with the move said she felt like she was “walking [the veterans] to their death,” the report said.
Investigators placed most of the blame for the mishandling of the outbreak on the home’s leadership team, which included Walsh, medical director David Clinton, director of nursing Vanessa Lauziere and Surreira.
The report has these people openly admitting that they knew there was COVID-19 rampant in these units and still bullying staffers and idling by while veterans die,” said Corey Brombredi of SEIU 888, which represents most of the home’s care staff. “It is criminal to me.