These are external links and will open in a new windowDuring the coronavirus pandemic more people died with the virus in Scotland's care homes than in its hospitals. 1.2M likes. At the height of the pandemic, 39 staff members at Whitehills care home in East Kilbride were off work. At the time, the BBC understands, the home was on an amber staffing alert. "He was just a file with a name on it, and they wanted that file off their desk, so they thought, get him into that nursing home, then I can move on to my next case.
Welcome to the official Facebook page for BBC Scotland. "An investigation by South Lanarkshire Council found "no significant issues that would pose a risk to care home residents".In May, Rodger Laing was moved from hospital into a care home. There's elderly people in there dying.
"I disagreed with that," Gerry said. Louise was shocked by the state of Bridget's room "A spokesperson for care home operator HC-One denied Mrs Gallagher had been "written off" and said Kyle Court staff "strongly believe they did everything possible to provide the best care and support" for her.They added: "The care home has no control over the prescribing decisions made by GPs. Rose had Covid symptoms but her son could not get her into hospital at first
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In April, the BBC understands, the home had issued a red staffing alert - meaning it did not have enough staff to properly care for its residents.Figures released to the BBC under Freedom of Information suggest absence rates like this were not unusual.During lockdown, the Care Inspectorate received 30 red warnings that homes did not have enough staff to properly care for their residents, and 149 amber warnings that staffing was stretched.Louise McKechnie believes the high level of absence at Whitehills affected her grandmother's care.Bridget Snakenburg had been at Whitehills for four years when she contracted Covid, then had a stroke. BBC Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
She said she found Bridget soiled and wet, in a dirty room, with an open bag of used PPE in her bathroom. Louise McKechnie thinks the high absence rate affected her grandmother's care
He had caught Covid-19.Rodger was one of more than 1,300 patients discharged into homes in Scotland to free up hospital beds for coronavirus patients.The 80-year-old had dementia and had been in Midlothian Community Hospital for about seven months.In December, before the pandemic, Rodger's family had agreed on a move to a care home - one of several considered was Drummond Grange in Edinburgh.But when social workers wanted to move him there, coronavirus was already in the home.He said: "I said to the social work department 'you cannot take a human being out of an environment that he's healthy in, and put him in an environment that is riddled with Covid.