By Tom Precious
ALBANY – As state lawmakers look to hold public hearings into the
high rates of Covid-19 deaths at New York nursing homes, the influential
chairman of the Assembly health committee believes an independent
counsel is also needed as part of a probe of both nursing homes and the
state government.
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat and longtime
chairman of the health panel that has jurisdiction over the state Health
Department, said the approach employed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to
examine the nursing home deaths needs to be re-examined by the
Democratic governor.
With New York under fire by residents’ families and health care
advocates for the large number of Covid-19 nursing home deaths, Cuomo
last month said Attorney General Letitia James and the state Health
Department would lead the investigation into what happened.
But Gottfried noted two problems with that approach.
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Source: The Buffalo News
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