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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Cuomo sets up 19 COVID-only nursing homes

2021-02-11

[NYP] The Cuomo administration has quietly set up 19 "COVID-only" nursing homes throughout the state to treat patients recovering from the killer bug who are discharged from hospitals.

State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker revealed the establishment of the coronavirus-only nursing homes in a 16-page letter sent to the state Legislature Wednesday, which was his response to a series of questions submitted by lawmakers who chair committees overseeing nursing homes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his health department came under fierce criticism last spring — during the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak — when thousands of recovering coronavirus patients were released from hospitals and sent to nursing homes.

Some nursing home operators claimed a March 25 state Health Department directive pressured them to admit or readmit COVID-19 patients at a time when they were already overwhelmed by the outbreak. At the time, nursing homes were not allowed to test new admissions for COVID-19, had inadequate personal protective equipment and suffered from staffing shortages.

Nursing home operators complained they were told they could not transfer sick COVID-19 patients to the temporary state Javits Center hospital or the United States Navy’s Comfort hospital ship which then-President Trump dispatched to New York harbor to help treat sick patients during the pandemic.

Posted by:Besoeker

#5 Wonder how self-euthanization will sway the rates.

Posted by: Woozle Trotsky8701 2021-02-11 17:37

#4 Coming soon, Cuomo order crematoriums to be build next to those nursing homes. Cremation is mandatory!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2021-02-11 13:37

#3 Not to be confused with euthanasia clinics in 1930's Germany, of course...

Posted by: magpie 2021-02-11 12:57

#2 Had to move my sister to a better quality nursing home after she was hospitalized with COVID-19 on Thanksgiving Day. She is doing much better now, thank you.
I'm getting to know the admins, nursing staff & nurse practitioners at the new facility. They knew that there was such a thing as outpatient monoclonal antibody infusions for high risk newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients, but they were all under the impression that such therapies were not available locally. I conveyed the news that there were at least 2 infusion centers within 8 miles of their facility. One of them was run by the same hospital system that the nurse practitioner worked for! She was flabbergasted that her own hospital had not bothered to inform her of this possibility. So I've been sending them a series of emails with the details.

Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-02-11 12:33

#1 "inadequate personal protective equipment" continues to be a problem. My sister's nursing home recently got scammed with a shipment of N95 masks (from China of course) that turned out to be counterfeit. They got a refund of their outlay for this. Basically NOTHING has been done at the federal level to ensure a safe domestic source of N95 masks at the VAST quantity needed to deal with the current epidemic, much less build up a stockpile for the next epidemic. Does anyone really believe there won't be another epidemic similar to COVID-19?

Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-02-11 12:29

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