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Nursing homes removed thousands of beds from New York as they struggle to meet staffing minimums required by law, leaving some residents stuck in hospitals or forced into homes far away from family.
On Sunday, I wept with relatives of those who perished from COVID in New York nursing homes. Five years after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s notorious directive of March 25, 2020, the pain I ...
In Syracuse’s worst nursing home risked lives, NY finds. Resident wonders if ‘they’d be better off dead’”“ (Nov. 15, 2024), we learned that “Syracuse’s worst nursing home” has ...
A total of 150 nursing homes in New York received the lowest overall rating in the latest federal government review of safety, staffing and quality measures. The federal ratings were released late ...
Out of the 150 lowest-rated nursing homes in New York, the Finger Lakes had 13 and the Hudson Valley had 21. A total of 150 nursing homes in New York received the lowest overall rating in the ...
OMBUDSMAN. WE INTRODUCED YOU TO MARY BEAM AND HER SISTER, IRENE DIRENZO IN 2021. THEY FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE STATE OFFICE OF HEALTH CARE QUALITY HQ ABOUT THEIR SISTER LYNN’S CARE AT A ...
A law that requires New York nursing homes to spend at least 70% of revenues on direct resident care has survived a major legal challenge, nearly two years after the legislation went into effect ...
Most U.S. nursing homes will need to add staffing under a federal rule announced Monday that for the first time sets minimum staffing ratios nationwide for homes that care for elderly and disabled ...
"Real Time" host Bill Maher confronted former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the nursing home scandal that plagued his handling of COVID. While sexual harassment allegations led to Cuomo ...
The New York State Attorney General sued four siblings who own two local nursing homes in December for alleged fraud and resident neglect at a nursing home on Long Island. Attorney General Letitia ...
Nursing home inspections: NY backlog linked to some of worst short-staffing in U.S. Rose Smith recounted how her brother, Patrick Murray, a resident at Martine Center, deteriorated. During COVID ...
NY AG Letitia James files a neglect suit against four nursing homes. The owners, operators and landlords of four nursing homes in New York for years misused more than $83 million in taxpayer money ...