Posted on 04/25/2020 5:47:33 AM PDT by Libloather
The coronavirus patients began arriving the last week of March, transferred to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center under a New York state mandate requiring nursing homes to accept those recovering from COVID-19, even if they still might be contagious.
At the time, the Long Island nursing home had only one known resident who had contracted the virus, according to the facility’s president and CEO, Stuart Almer.
A month later, Gurwin is battling an outbreak that’s killed 24 residents - only three of whom were hospital transfers - and one staff member, who worked in housekeeping, Almer said. And the nursing home is still mandated to take in recovering hospital patients known to have the virus, potentially increasing its spread in the facility.
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“They don’t have a right to object. That is the rule and that is the regulation, and they have to comply with that,” Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a Thursday news conference. “If they can’t do it, we’ll put them in a facility that can do it.”
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On March 25, New York became the first state to issue a blanket rule prohibiting nursing homes from denying admission or readmission to residents because they are infected with COVID-19, and banned the facilities from testing patients for the disease before they are admitted. (The state had already required all facilities to isolate COVID-positive patients and prohibited staff from moving between treating those who are infected and those who are not.)
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“If they can’t do it, we’ll put them in a facility that can do it.”
Zat shows that New Yorkers know how to handle a problem !.../sarc
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Where is the outrage from republican politicians?
Folks should check out what’s going in Steuben County in Upstate NY. The situation at a couple of nursing homes there is heartbreaking.
Fedzilla changed Medicare regs to allow nursing homes to refuse if the situation warranted. Cuomo ordered them returned anyway. I’m thinking Medicaid has something to do with this, and I’m wondering how many of the patients returned were/are on Medicaid.
BTW, Cuomo and Albany have also protected state nursing homes from WuFlu-related civil and criminal legal action. Anyone know if any other state has done this?
Likely not much. I doubt it was many retired public employees dying. They have far better health bennies.
New York City. The enema spot of the United States.
The place in America where for entertainment you can watch the rats on the street fight over food.
The irony here is that this was Rachel Maddow’s cause to hurt Trump until it was discovered that this issue was Cuomo’s fault.
20k+ dead in NY but Cuomo doesn’t care because he knows these recently dead will still be voting democrat for decades.
NOBODY ever told Mario Cuomo:
“When you will your IQ to Andrew and Chris,
YOU HAVE TO SPLIT IT IN TWO FIRST”
..
N O B O D Y ! ! !
A facility with cyanide showers and ovens?
I’ll go with sadistic pig.
What he has done is akin to the colonial Brits giving blankets to
the Indians that were saturated with measles and smallpox germs.
This is genocide. Multitudes of Medicaid patients in NYC are Black or Hispanic.
Cuomo is a rotten racist.
“”Spreading the virus doesn’t seem to be a problem.””
And someone needs to make a stink about it happening in a JEWISH nursing home!!! I’m not kidding! If other groups can moan and complain about UNFAIR treatment, then so can the Jewish families of those patients...
Take the Covid 9 patients to a “Muslim” nursing home. Does such a thing exist?
Cuomo is such a dork - the nursing homes don’t have the RIGHT to refuse the patients BUT if they don’t, we’ll just take them to another facility! Oh! right - that’s sure sticking by your guns, you drip!
It’s been happening all over the country. I ‘ve paid particular attention to CA nursing homes because I have a dear old friend in one there.
but, but.... I thought Cuomo was an infallible genius.
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