24 March 2021: The Numbers of COVID-Positive Patients Transferred to NY Nursing Homes

Database: How many COVID-positive hospital patients went to each NY nursing home last spring

A team of journalists at USA Today Network New York have obtained a database with information on about 9,000 COVID-positive patients discharged from hospitals to nursing homes in New York between 25 March 2020 and 8 May 2020. Here are some of their initial findings:

• About 25% of nursing homes in New York received at least 20 COVID-positive hospital patients, with some accepting between 100 and 170 residents each.
• Many of the nursing homes that took in COVID-positive patients, about 75%, were in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester and Rockland counties.
• Of the roughly 9,000 COVID-positive discharges to nursing homes overall, about 270 patients went to facilities in the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Monroe, Oneida, Ontario and Ulster.

Details linked to the patient discharges, as well as legal immunity provisions granted to health care providers, are central to the Department of Justice investigation into Cuomo’s administration withholding for months the true COVID-19 death toll for nursing homes.

The highest patient discharge totals included Workmen's Circle Multi-care Center in the Bronx, with 108 COVID-positive admissions and 61 readmissions, as well as the Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Manhattan, with 110 admissions and 44 readmissions.

Overall, there were 6,327 COVID-positive admissions and 2,729 readmissions, which was about 40% higher than the state previously disclosed, as first reported by the Associated Press.

It's information the Cuomo administration did not want to become known by the public.