Investigators have fined several nursing homes in Connecticut for violations found during the coronavirus pandemic.  Bethel Health Care Center was fined about 25-hundred dollars on May 27th. 

According to the report, a resident who recovered from COVID-19 was left in the COVID unit for seven days, despite a room in the symptom-free unit being available.  CDC guidelines say a person can be moved after three days of being COVID-free.  Investigators also found laundry attendants at the 161-bed nursing home folding clean towels without masks.  A nursing aide was observed wearing a surgical mask underneath her N95 mask. 

National Health Care Associates did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

The state Department of Public Health, with the help of the National Guard, have been conducting inspections at all 215 nursing homes in the state.