A patient is loaded into the back of an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center, Friday, April 17, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients have died. Nineteen of the state's nursing homes have each had at least 20 deaths linked to the pandemic.
“As our care providers make these difficult decisions, they need to know they will not be prosecuted or persecuted,” read a letter sent this month from several major hospital and nursing home groups to their next big goal, California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to make a decision. Other states in their sights include Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
“This has very little to do with the hard work being done by health care providers,” he said, “and everything to do with protecting the financial interests of these big operators.” “It was a decision made on the merits to help ensure we had every available resource to save lives,” said Rich Azzopardi, a senior advisor to Cuomo. “Suggesting any other motivation is simply grotesque.”
Toby Edelman of the Center for Medicare Advocacy is troubled that homes are getting legal protections while family members aren’t being allowed to visit and routine government inspections have been scaled back. “If you take the power of suing away from the families, then anything goes,” said Stella Kazantzas whose husband died in a Massachusetts nursing home with the same owners as the home hit by the nation’s first such outbreak near Seattle, which killed 43 people.
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I already said weeks ago, state run nursing homes dont have the $ to run when their is NOT A PANDEMIC. IT WAS INEVITABLE! I posted earlier families need to sue or move family members to their homes if possible. These numbers are staggering and thus inhumame and unacceptable.
Residents are isolated ,cut off from society. Not returned travelers /out getting necessities. They are in lock down with the only contact being staff. There is some accountability whether it's the owners/admins, the gov. It's happening all over. We didn't protect them! cdnpoli
Response before investigations how political. People are dying and polticians rush to protect the people causing the deaths
No way they could transfer people that get sick. They need better policies in place! I worked in one of these types of nursing homes and they suck!
IndeCardio Why did they shut down the Javitts Center and send back the comfort?
Who protected those victims! Let them sue, ESPECIALLY if there was NEGLIGENCE!!!!!!
Take out the nursing home deaths from the national numbers of overall covid deaths
Nursing homes are where some of you send your elderly to die. And now they're getting immunity for their negligence!
What if they deserve to be held accountable for violations of basic care and sanitation regulations?
NYS leads the nation in nursing home deaths b/c NYGovCuomo ordered older Covid positive people sent there to wipe them out. should write about that disaster.
If my story ever gets told, a hospital in Texas *may* end up being sued. This healthcareworker doesn't seem too concerned about wearing a facemask. (photo taken May 1, 2020 inside 'Day Surgery' area of a hospital in Texas.) And, there were at least 29 other hospital employees
Hold these nursing homes accountable.
Cuomo killed myriad people in those homes by mandating that they accept people with Covid. He should get the needle for that.
This virus outbreak shows us the nursing home industry is hazardous to seniors. It needs to change drastically and stop being a place we send people to die.
Protect the nursing homes but, not the poor souls that died there.
gotta protect the wealthy
The homes should be protected. They did not choose Cuomos order. No NH could deny readmission or admission of residents who were covid positive. NHs are not equipt with staff or supplies to properly isolate to the measures needed to protect the other residents.
PaulRieckhoff What about the ppl that want to sue the federal gov’t more broadly and the Liar-in-Chief specifically, for putting every single American life at risk with his completely incompetent ongoing “response” to this crisis?!
How can a blanket of protection be offered prior to any investigation to discern nursing home negligence from sudden catastrophe (viral outbreak)?
We let your mother choke to death because of our neglect but but but but something something Covid-19!
The state of NY needs to be sued
avoid lawsuits & save more older
i truly believe, maybe not all of them, but some of them there was some JaneToppan going on.
That's exactly what they did for big pharma companies to protect them from deaths and injuries as a result of vaccines.
Ahahaha not all of them, right newYork
Because Cuomo sent Covid patients there
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