Cuomo’s Not Only Going to Destroy My Workplace, He’ll Destroy the Entire Region.
I work in a nursing home for a healthcare company in danger of closing if we don’t receive state aid.
Imagine, if you will, being eighty eight years old living in a nursing home during a pandemic that prevents you from seeing your loved ones. A nursing home in one of the poorest, most rural counties in all of New York State. Imagine then, that the facility gets shut down, and the nursing homes nearby — aside from being vastly inferior to the one you’re currently living in — are in just as precarious a financial situation as the one you’re currently living in. The home can’t close down officially, of course, until they’ve found you, and all the other residents another home working in coordination with your families. But with everyone else in the surrounding area on the brink of financial collapse as well if the collapse hasn’t happened already, where are you going to go? Will you still be close to family? Will you still receive quality care?
This is the situation that could potentially be facing the residents in the nursing home where I work if Andrew Cuomo and the New York State government don’t provide some relief for the long term care facilities throughout the state.
