Our Town NY: The Other Side of the Front Line
Due to COVID-19, organizations have had to change the way their group homes are run and also help the residents cope with the new reality of the pandemic.
Denise Flores, the assistant vice president for the developmental disabilities’ division at The New York Foundling, said that during the beginning of the pandemic they had to ration out the protective equipment they had. They would only give masks, gloves and gowns to residences with sick individuals.
“I mean we don’t have any to waste, but we do have a system in place that everyone has now either face shields, gowns or masks,” said Flores.
