Helping Vulnerable Covid Patients

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/notfakenewspodcast/lean-to-the-left-episode-362-helping-vul What if you're a registered sex offender for acts you did many years ago and now, you're elderly and infirm. You've been in the hospital for more than two months with Covid, and your hospitalization has run out. The doctors want to discharge you, but you have no place to go. That's where Timothy Poore and his company, ATP HealthCare in Florida, come in. And he's our guest on this show. Timothy’s firm works with hospitals to find placement options for hard-to-place patients. It’s a firm that works with patients and their families to answer the question, “What do I do now?” I thought it would be interesting to talk with Timothy about that, about some of the problems faced by many seniors, especially those suffering from dementia. But I also want to speak with him about the challenges faced by elderly patients as the Delta variant spreads in an atmosphere of mixed signals (at best) regarding mitigation. Timothy lives and works in a state where the governor practically turns school administrators into criminals for mandating masks for teachers and students, even as Covid cases – and deaths – skyrocket. And he also works in an industry that cares for the elderly, and that means nursing homes. The Biden administration is ordering those facilities to require staff to be vaccinated, but there is resistance, and the industry says that will only make current staff shortages worse and end up harming patients. We cover all that, and more, in this conversation with Timothy Poore.