COVID-19 Crisis Threatens Beleaguered Assisted Living Industry

(By Laura Ungar and Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News)

David Aguirre jumped in his truck and drove toward the hospital in the predawn darkness the minute he got the news: His 91-year-old mom was being rushed from her Texas assisted living facility to the emergency room.

Estela Aguirre would be one of five residents to die and six others to be sickened by the novel coronavirus at The Waterford at College Station, part of a financially strapped chain of assisted living sites called Capital Senior Living.  Continue reading article here…

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