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Family protest the need for more staffing at local nursing home, questions care By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) – A written statement released Monday by Regency Integrated Health Services, the parent company for Guadalupe Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (GVNC), is apparently still not enough for one local woman and her family who felt that they had no choice but to protest the care that was reportedly being provided to their loved one. Stefanie Taylor says it was just in June that she was forced to put the care of her mother into the arms of the nursing staff at GVNC located at 1210 Eastwood Drive. This past weekend, however, Taylor says that care was questioned after getting an earful from one of its nurses who apparently told her about the lack of care being provided to not only COVID-19 patients but to all patients at the facility. “So, on Saturday morning at 8:30, I started calling the nursing home and I couldn’t get through. It just rang and rang until about 10 o’clock, I finally got through to someone and the nurse that I spoke with at that point told me that she was not the nurse on the COVID unit and when I asked to speak with that
nurse, she explained to me that there was no nurse on that unit – that none of the nurses wanted to work the COVID-19 unit for fear of contracting the virus. She
also explained to me that there were no nurses’ aides on that hallway also. She also went into detail about how it was her opinion that no one had been on that
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hallway all night. That there had been no nurses or nursing staff from 10 o’clock the night before. I was furious. I was scared for my mom and for all those
patients in that hallway. I could not for the life of me figure out how were they getting their medicines, how were they eating, how were they going to the bathroom. It was just beyond me and like I said, I was furious,” said Taylor. Furious at what she had just been told by this nurse, Taylor demanded that she be allowed to speak with GVNC Director Brooks Kersh or as Taylor refers to him, Mr. Brooks. “She had said that he had actually put on PPE (personal protection equipment) and had gone down to the COVID unit and was checking on patients. I asked her to go get him. She said she could get as far as the doors but not get to close because she herself did not want to contract the virus and she hollered down the hall for Mr. Brooks and he did not answer. I told her to call him on his cell phone. She said ‘well I do not think he’ll answer,’ and I said you know what, call him anyway. So, she called him, and he refused to come to the phone so I told her that I would continue calling until I got an answer from him. So, I called and of course, I did not get an answer from him,” said Taylor. See GVNC, page 2