We also up to 15 Covid only nursing homes that have 1,000 beds available and then we have nine sites that are going to be on the way very soon with 600 beds. And this is really, really significant because Our policy from the very beginning has been you can't discharge from the hospital a resident of a long term care facility who is COVID positive and contagious back to the nursing home. Because obviously the fear is that that will infect other vulnerable people. And so what happens is you end up having folks who are infected, they're in the hospital, but they are medically stable and really don't need continued hospital care. (10:12–10:24)
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Asserts policy against discharging COVID-positive long-term care residents back to nursing homes.
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