Discussion with Vincent Pierce the founder of Nursing Homes Lives Matter that was created during the pandemic.

NHLM founder Vincent Pierce is a father, music producer, youth educator, gun violence survivor and OPEN DOORS Reality Poet. He is also a nursing home resident. In July 2020, encouraged by the groundswell of demonstrations in support for Black lives, Vince launched #NursingHomeLivesMatter in response to the COVID-19 crisis and its devastating impact on the primarily Black and Brown residents of Coler Rehabilitation & Nursing Care Center on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

“During the height of the pandemic, we were left in the dark as hundreds of Covid patients were moved into our home; the infected were left in bedrooms with the uninfected; quadriplegic residents were kept in bed for days, at risk of pressure sores becoming fatal; Coler’s administration lied about dire PPE and staffing shortages and grossly underreported the number of deaths. For months, we have been cut off from family and friends and are only allowed outdoors for a few hours a day in an area defined by police tape.”

Our movement seeks to protect nursing home residents and workers who have been systematically disempowered and put in harm’s way by public officials and health care administrators.

Website: https://www.opendoorsnyc.org/nhlm


Article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/covid-has-turned-these-nursing-home-residents-into-activists-fighting-to-show-their-lives-matter/

Youtube: https://youtu.be/RMg2w7S7qX0

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