More Deaths from Gallatin Rehab COVID-19 Outbreak

Sumner County Commission Chair Scott Langford took to Facebook to continue to criticize the leadership at Gallatin Rehab and Healing and the Tennessee Department of Health during the COVID-19 outbreak that left over 100 people infected. Here's his post:

Last week, Mayor Paige Brown, Mayor Anthony Holt, Chris Taylor, me, and the health community of Sumner County stood opposed to reopening the Gallatin Rehab Center that we evacuated 11 days ago.

The corporation that owns the center and the TN Department of Health overrode us and sent patients back three days after closure. There was zero transparency about cleaning, zero transparency about whether patients who were positive for COVID were being transported back, and zero transparency about quarantining staff members exposed to the virus. ZERO!

Now, patients are dying. Our first responders are exposed repeatedly as they move patients back and forth. More employees and residents are exposed to COVID in the center.

It is beyond appalling that this is allowed to go on.
These deaths are not a statistic. They are grandparents, parents, and friends.

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