Andrew Cuomo PERSONALLY edited report downplaying COVID nursing home deaths, email reveals: ‘Governor’s edits are attached’
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently repeatedly claimed he had no memory of seeing the 2020 New York State Department of Health report before it was released, but emails and congressional documents reveal that Cuomo may have been much more privy to the report than he previously acknowledged. Gov. Cuomo testified at a closed […]
Democratic lawmakers call out nursing home executive pay amid minimum staffing rule fight
Democratic lawmakers are blaming high executive pay at the three for-profit nursing home companies as the industry fights new minimum staffing requirements that would apply to nearly all U.S. facilities. Executive compensation is letter The letter was sent Friday evening to the CEOs of Brookdale Senior Living, National Healthcare and Ensign Group, and was signed […]
House Committee Issues Subpoena To Hochul Over Delayed Docs In Nursing Home Deaths Investigation
The chairman of a congressional committee investigating the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday subpoenaed New York's Democratic governor, Kathy Hockle, for withholding key documents about nursing home deaths in the state. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, said: Summon They have demanded that the New York State Executive Commission […]
Cuomo branded ‘lying sack of s—t’ by families, lawmakers as he deflects blame for NY COVID nursing home deaths
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was denounced as a “lying bastard” by outraged family members and lawmakers as he shifted blame during a heated legislative hearing Tuesday over his COVID-19 nursing home orders that led to thousands of deaths. During a more than two-hour hearing at the U.S. Capitol, Governor Cuomo was asked repeatedly to apologize […]
‘You are culpable’: Stefanik demands Cuomo apologize for COVID nursing home deaths in heated exchange
Lawmakers grilled former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his handling of controversial COVID-era nursing home policies and demanded that he apologize to families who lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Cuomo testified Tuesday before a House select committee investigating the coronavirus about the deaths of elderly people after they were admitted to […]
China Turning Kindergartens into Nursing Homes
Chinese government newspaper Global Times The minister on Sunday highlighted a growing trend in the country of converting kindergarten facilities into retirement homes and adding senior citizen facilities to children's play areas and the education sector as ways of participating in the “thriving silver economy”. A state-run newspaper described the trend as an “advanced” and […]
Suspect, 78, charged in 44-year-old Texas cold case kidnapping, murder of nursing student
A 78-year-old man incarcerated nearly 2,000 miles away has been charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 25-year-old nursing student in Texas in 1980, Austin police announced in a press release Friday. Police say DNA technology has led them to believe that Dec Brewer Jr., currently serving a prison sentence in Massachusetts on unrelated charges, […]
Tim Walz doubled down on allowing COVID patients into nursing homes despite 81% of the state’s pandemic deaths occurring there
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz faced intense criticism for placing COVID-19 patients in nursing homes during the height of the pandemic, then doubled down on that decision even as a staggering 81% of the state’s pandemic deaths occurred in nursing homes. “This was not a mistake,” Minnesota Governor Said in May 2020The North Star […]
Texas sues Biden administration over nursing home staffing rule
Texas is suing the Biden administration over a new policy mandating minimum staffing levels in nursing homes, arguing the federal Medicare agency exceeded its authority. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Texas, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said the rule should be struck down and the administration should be […]
Gunman kills mother, 5 others in Croatian nursing home shooting
Authorities said a gunman entered a retirement home in a quiet Croatian town on Monday and opened fire, killing six people, including the man’s mother. Most of the dead were elderly people in their 80s and 90s, the prime minister said. National Police Commissioner Nikola Mirina said five people were killed instantly and another died […]