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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, to an Associated Press report that his state's coronavirus death toll in nursing homes could be a major undercount, saying it makes ...
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New York may have undercounted nursing home COVID deaths, investigators say 02:20. New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report on Thursday alleging the New York State Department of ...
The New York State Department of Health has released updated data on Covid-19 deaths among the state’s nursing home residents, several days after a state Supreme Court judge ordered the ...
The Democratic-led New York state Assembly released a package of nearly 20 nursing home accountability bills Friday, aimed at tightening restrictions on the hundreds of for-profit facilities.
While Gov. Kathy Hochul has lauded her Master Plan for Aging and historic investments made by the state fiscal year 2024-25 budget, the $236.8 billion spending plan once again overlooks the needs ...
ALBANY — A report released Monday by the state Department of Health sought to absolve the agency of blame for more than 6,000 deaths in New York nursing homes from COVID-19, the disease caused ...
New York state finally released fatality data for individual nursing homes, painting a much grimmer picture of the toll taken by the COVID-19 virus. The state Department of Health quietly updated i… ...
NPR looked at 78 nursing homes in New York in which six or more residents have died of COVID-19. In one facility, 55 people have died as of April 20. Ten others report 30 or more deaths.
A year after the state's minimum staffing requirements went into effect, the vast majority of nursing homes in New York are not providing the 3.5 hours of care per patient mandated by law, but ...
The state attorney general, Letitia James, said it’s likely that the Cuomo administration failed to report thousands of Covid-19 deaths of nursing home residents. By Jesse McKinley and Luis ...