More than 5,000 have died of COVID-19 at long-term care facilities in Mass.

24 Jun '20

More than 5,000 have died of COVID-19 at long-term care facilities in Mass.

June 24, 2020

The COVID-19 death toll at Massachusetts long-term care facilities reached 5,007 on Wednesday. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported that there were 23,297 cases among residents and workers across 369 facilities in the state. This update comes on the same day that a scathing report was released about the handling of […]

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24 Jun '20

The Scandal of Eldercide

June 24, 2020

COVID19, Featured, Nursing Homes

No matter what one thinks of Covid-19, or the governmental response to it, there is one aspect that should be horrifying to everyone: The practice/policy of intentionally placing Covid-19 patients in Skilled Care Facilities (SKF). The establishment paper The Wall Street Journal recently published the fact that 50k nursing home residents have died with or […]

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29 May '20

New York’s nursing home horrors are even worse than you think

May 29, 2020

COVID19, Featured, Media, Nursing Homes

By Betsy McCaughey May 29, 2020 | 7:58pm | Updated Patricia Castillo remembers when the Newfane Rehab and Health Care Center, where her mother lived, notified her that a patient had just been admitted from a nearby Niagara County hospital with COVID-19. Jill Sawyer, whose father lived at the same nursing home, remembers getting notified, […]

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27 May '20

Cuomo blames nursing homes for following his Covid-19 order that KILLED PATIENTS – after removing it from website

May 27, 2020

COVID19, Featured, New York, Nursing Homes, Skilled Nursing Facility

From RT New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has stealthily attempted to rewrite history, deleting his controversial order requiring nursing homes to admit Covid-19 patients from the state health website and blaming facilities for obeying it. After being lambasted in the press for the March 25 executive order that forced New […]

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22 May '20

NY Gov. Cuomo reportedly ordered over 4,300 recovering COVID-19 patients to be sent to nursing homes

May 22, 2020

COVID19, Featured, Nursing Homes, Skilled Nursing Facility

Jake Lahut May 22, 2020, 8:13 AM New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent more than 4,300 recovering coronavirus patients to nursing homes across the Empire State, according to the Associated Press. Cuomo’s executive order on the nursing homes — which was intended to free up hospital beds for the most critical COVID-19 […]

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6 May '20

State Ready To Pay Assisted Living Facilities To Take Coronavirus Patients

May 6, 2020

COVID19, Featured, Nursing Homes, Skilled Nursing Facility

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 By Amita Sharma The Newsom Administration has approved a plan to pay assisted living communities to take in COVID-19 patients — a move that doctors, nurses and other advocates for elderly people say is unnecessary and dangerous. The California Department of Social Services is offering to pay […]

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1 Apr '20

California orders skilled nursing facilities to accept coronavirus patients

April 1, 2020

COVID19, Featured, Media, Nursing Homes, Uncategorized

Jack Dolan,LA Times•April 1, 2020 As fears escalate about the toll the coronavirus will take on the sick and elderly in nursing homes — who are among the most vulnerable to the deadly virus — California regulators have told skilled nursing facility operators that they must accept patients even if they have the disease. […]

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