Texas veterans homes overseen by George P. Bush were often the deadliest places to be during

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Texas veterans homes overseen by George P. Bush were often the deadliest places to be during COVID-19 pandemic

by Shannon Najmabadi, Texas Tribune
Jay Root, Houston Chronicle
Carla Astudillo, Texas Tribune


Mary Kay Dieterich was encouraged last year when Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush promised to shake up the management of the El Paso nursing home where her father died of COVID-19.

She knew it wouldn’t bring Eugene Forti, a World War II veteran, back to life. But as the top elected official in charge of all nine of the state’s nursing homes catering to veterans in Texas, Bush certainly had the power to hold the private management company accountable for what Dieterich saw as a botched response to the pandemic.

Yet, despite telling the for-profit operator of the Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home that he was “deeply concerned” about the care it was providing in El Paso, Bush’s promised shakeup, delivered to the local news outlet El Paso Matters, never came — even as COVID deaths soared at the facility.

More than a quarter of its infected residents died, nearly double the average 13% death rate across El Paso County’s 21 nursing homes.

And it’s not the only one.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/23/texas-coronavirus-veterans-homes-george-p-bush/

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1. The GOP's inability

to govern is apparently also a genetic trait.

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2. Seems that way. ...nt