…with a side helping of “Blue Minnesota always tries to emulate New York”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
City-run nursing homes in NYC became wretched hellscapes<\/a> during the worst of the pandemic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was just heartbreaking,\u201d said one of the RNs, a mom of four from Wisconsin who spent about 17 days at the Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center.<\/p> \u201cPatients were in deplorable conditions \u2014 very, very dirty, bed sores, terrible odors,\u2019\u2019 the FEMA-contracted nurse, 38, told The Post.<\/p> \u201cDuring my shift, I was placing my initials on the adult diapers. When I would return the next day, the patients would have an additional adult diaper on over the one with my initials on it, saturated urine through both and through the sheets.\u2019\u2019<\/p> She and several other nurses, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they tended to coronavirus patients in the facility\u2019s long-term-care section.<\/p> The virus-sickened patients were already living at the site when the nurses arrived and not among the COVID-19 sufferers\u00a0who were ordered sent to the facility<\/a>\u00a0by Mayor Bill de Blasio because of a shortage of hospital beds amid the pandemic. The patients brought in from the outside were put in a separate wing of the site that had been closed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n