NEW YORK – Attorney General Letitia James today released a report on her office’s ongoing investigations into nursing homes’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March, Attorney General James has been investigating nursing homes throughout New York state based on allegations of patient neglect and other concerning conduct that may have jeopardized the health and safety of residents and employees.
Among those findings were that a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent. The investigations also revealed that nursing homes’ lack of compliance with infection control protocols put residents at increased risk of harm, and facilities that had lower pre-pandemic staffing ratings had higher COVID-19 fatality rates. Based on these findings and subsequent investigation, Attorney General James is conducting ongoing investigations into more than 20 nursing homes whose reported conduct during the first wave of the pandemic presented particular concern.
“As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate,” said Attorney General James. “While we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents. Nursing homes residents and workers deserve to live and work in safe environments, and I will continue to work hard to safeguard this basic rightt during this precarious time.”
I think they want to get rid of Cuomo, or why else would the Attorney General and now the press go after him?
He is a threat and he has family in the Media which makes him more of a threat.
I think he ran his mouth to much and now he is on the outs with the Progressives.
You can only sweep so many dead Grandparents under the rug.
Cuomo can write another book about what swell guy he is and that elderly people dying was the right call…it was for their own good. The MSM will agree.
Didn’t he recently get an Academy Award for his Covid pressers? What a farce, Cuomo is ultimately responsible for thousands of deaths. My only hope is when he goes down, he takes his brother Fredo with him…
