Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Lawmakers Call for Independent Probe of Covid-19 Crisis at N.Y. Nursing Homes

 
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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