The real reason was money. The hospital gets paid a lot to treat COVID patients. They did not want their hospitals to lose money by keeping those patients any longer then necessary. And to be honest- there was no reason to keep them in the hospital.
What he should have done instead of claiming that the nursing homes were "privately owned" and should figure out how to obtain need PPE was to assist them. They could have established areas within the nursing homes to treat the recovering COVID patients, educate the staff, make sure there were isolation precautions and PPE supplies available and monitor that they being used properly. Or create step-down hospitals in which the recovering or recovered patients could receive care until they were no longer shedding the virus.
This way the hospitals still would have had enough beds for the very ill COVID patients and have a clear path of recovery for those who were deemed well enough to not be discharged to a lower level of nursing care.
The real reason was money. The hospital gets paid a lot to treat COVID patients. They did not want their hospitals to lose money by keeping those patients any longer then necessary. And to be honest- there was no reason to keep them in the hospital.
What he should have done instead of claiming that the nursing homes were "privately owned" and should figure out how to obtain need PPE was to assist them. They could have established areas within the nursing homes to treat the recovering COVID patients, educate the staff, make sure there were isolation precautions and PPE supplies available and monitor that they being used properly. Or create step-down hospitals in which the recovering or recovered patients could receive care until they were no longer shedding the virus.
This way the hospitals still would have had enough beds for the very ill COVID patients and have a clear path of recovery for those who were deemed well enough to not be discharged to a lower level of nursing care.