- State yet to make independent nursing homes report public months year-long review
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New York State Senator Jim Tedisco (R, Glenville) is demanding answers from the Governor's office on pandemic-era state policies on nursing homes. It's been nearly three years after a damning report from Attorney General Letitia James found the State greatly under-counted COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes under the Cuomo Administration.
Governor Kathy Hochul was Andrew Cuomo's lieutenant governor at the time of the pandemic--when a March 2020 order from Cuomo put COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes. It was a policy the state eventually backtracked on after CBS 6 reporting involving a whistleblower; but the damage had already been done....
In 2022-- the now-Governor Hochul announced she ordered an independent review of the state's policies early on in the pandemic.
The state hired an outside firm on a $4.3 million, one-year contract starting in November of 2022. That was nearly 14 months ago. Senator Tedisco is calling on the Governor to make that report public, immediately and without redactions.
It's long past time for vital questions about the resigned-in-disgrace former NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive's impact on New York nursing homes to be answered.
This entry was added to the timeline on 6 January 2024.
