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Times Leader P.M. Update: Thursday, Jan. 28

DRUMS &mdash;State Representative Tarah Toohil is requesting that all of the residents of a Drums care home be relocated after all but one of the residents tested positive for COVID-19.
				Toohil, R-Butler Township, wrote the letter formally requesting to have the 31 patients at Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, saying that 30 of them tested positive for the virus.
				In a letter to Deputy Secretary for Health Preparedness and Community Protection Raphael Barishansky, Toohil says her office was alerted by an employee to &ldquo;deplorable&rdquo; conditions in the home, including &ldquo;expired food and lack of personal protective equipment for employees.&rdquo;
				&ldquo;Currently, Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing Home does not have the necessary equipment to care for the residents properly,&rdquo; Toohil writes in her letter. &ldquo;It has failed to timely conduct testing of staff and its residents which led to the current outbreak of COVID-19.&rdquo;
				Toohil writes that her office has received numerous calls and emails from both staff at the facility and family members of residents regarding the &ldquo;very troubling situation.&rdquo;
				Toohil is asking for an immediate transfer of all residents to a &ldquo;safe and more humane facility.&rdquo;
				When a reporter reached out to Kadima for comment, the individual who answered the call said all members of management who could comment had left for the day.

Toohil: Residents should be removed from Drums nursing home for COVID-19 outbreak, ‘deplorable’ conditions