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Abuse of the elderly or infirm commands far less attention in the 24-hour news cycle, but it happens with alarming frequency. From the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home scandal to the shocking arrest of caregiver Nathan Sutherland, these are six of the most horrific cases of nursing home abuse. He is meeting with President Joe Biden Friday morning to discuss passing the American Rescue Plan relief bill. Also present will be the governors of Arkansas, New Mexico, and Maryland, plus the mayors of Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Miami, and Arlington, Texas.
It was around that time that a nurse walked into the man’s room while he was smoking methamphetamine from a meth pipe. The police returned to the care facility and searched the man’s room, finding three meth pipes and a white residue inside on his scooter. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. "She came to us, you know... not even close to the woman who went in," she said. "I feel like this facility really robbed my mother of living out her life the way she should have."
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The owners and senior managers of Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Long Island created a network of shell companies to conceal the alleged fraud that siphoned Medicare and Medicaid funds that were supposed to be used for resident care, according to the attorney general's lawsuit. On April 17, and we don’t need to get too far on a tangent, but just so you guys understand part of all this. The organizationcompiled the informationand created a spreadsheet that outlines nursing home deaths by facility, county, date of death, and whether the death was in-facility or out-of-facility death, and COVID confirmed or COVID presumed. Another patient who was there for five months after a stroke said she only received three showers in that time. A man who was badly injured in a car crash lost 30 pounds as a result of the care at the rehab center, according to the attorney general, and his condition worsened during his time there.
Before the state released any data, the AP conducted its own survey and found at least 4,500 such patients. As of Friday, there were 1,522,785 cases reported in New York, and 45,597 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University & Medicine. More severe restrictions came March 20, when Cuomo ordered all nonessential workers to stay home, barred gatherings of any size and instructed anyone out in public to stay at least 6 feet from other people. But, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions over the July report who were interviewed by The Times, Dr. Zucker was aware as early as June that officials in his department believed the data was solid enough to include in the report. Numerous Democratic lawmakers, including most of the state’s congressional delegation, have called for him to resign.
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The facility neglected to report 51 resident deaths from COVID-19 to the state Department of Health during the first three months of the pandemic, according to the lawsuit. “When COVID-19 hit Long Island, Respondents’ exploitative business model simply snapped under the poor working conditions they had created,” the lawsuit said, adding that the facility neglected to report to the Department of Health 51 resident deaths from COVID-19 during the first three months of the pandemic. "The State of Michigan posts the long-term death rates online. The most current count puts the number at 5,537, more than 35% of all of Michigan's COVID deaths." "The governor has faced tough criticism over her pandemic nursing home policy early on," WDIV anchor Devin Scillian began the report. "Initially, COVID-positive patients were placed in the same facilities as COVID-negative patients. The governor ended that practice after the first six months of the pandemic."
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Among other things, the lawsuit alleged the nursing home paid more than $15 million in fraudulent rent to Cold Spring Realty, which is owned by the same individuals who operate the nursing home, and paid more than $5 million to several entities for supposed consulting. In total, the nursing home transferred over $42.4 million to its owners from 2016 to 2021, the lawsuit said. Substandard conditions in nursing homes around the country were exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The director of nursing involved in the incident is no longer employed by Arboreta, the company said, and the staff has now been trained on recognizing substance abuse disorder.
And it contends the median number of coronavirus patients sent to nursing homes had been hospitalized for nine days, the same period that the study said it likely takes for the virus to no longer be contagious. Then in January, Ms. James reported that the administration had undercounted virus-related deaths of nursing home residents by several thousand. Hours later, the Health Department added more than 3,800 such deaths to its tally. The Health Department report revived questions about how New York was counting such deaths.
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The new data echoes a Government Accountability Office report from a decade ago, which found that investor-owned nursing homes "had more total deficiencies than nonprofit homes both before and after acquisition." A spokesman for the State Assembly, Michael Whyland, also tweeted that while the governor’s staff had “reached out to staff and said they needed more time to supply information requested by the members,” there was no mention of a federal investigation at the time. But he insisted that lawmakers’ leadership staff was informed of that delay and said that the federal inquiry was reported in the news media. The governor’s explanation was quickly criticized by legislative leaders, who said they were not told that the delay was a result of a possible federal inquiry. They also questioned why it took Mr. Cuomo’s administration five months to respond to lawmakers after it had responded to the federal request in early September. Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted to a delay and that he “created pain,” but stopped short of a full apology for the state’s withholding of virus death data from state lawmakers.
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This was a relatively minor inconvenience, but violates the spirit if not the letter of the Freedom of Information Law. The report claims Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa said they “froze” out of fear that the true numbers would be “used against them” by federal prosecutors. Letitia James is taking legal action against Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, claiming there was financial fraud and rampant resident neglect in part due to severe understaffing.
Those companies allowed the nursing home to appear as if they were paying for services for the residents, but their real function was to hide who the actual owners of the facility were and to coordinate complex schemes to bilk as much money as possible, the attorney general's office said in the lawsuit. Data released in late January showedNew Yorkmay have undercounted the number of COVID-19 deaths atnursing homesby more than 50%, solidifying previously reported concerns regarding the Empire State’s pandemic response at such facilities. It also said 80% of the 310 nursing homes that admitted coronavirus patients already had a confirmed or suspected case among its residents or staff before the directive was issued.
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Osage Rehab and Heath Care Center is owned and managed by Arboreta Healthcare, which is headquartered in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Arboreta said in a written statement that it took immediate action after the Osage facility was cited for placing residents in immediate jeopardy, and the company said it intends to file a written plan of correction with the state within the next nine days. The inspectors also cited the facility for a series of incidents involving the director of nursing. After an ambulance crew brought a resident back to the home after a hospital stay, the staff was helping the man into bed when the director of nursing entered the room and started to rummage through the man’s belongings, yanking items from his dresser drawers. On Nov. 2, the home attempted to discharge the man to his home, but without an effective plan to ensure a safe transition.
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The Cold Spring Hills lawsuit comes three days after the attorney general sued another nursing home, Fulton Commons Care Center in East Meadow. In that suit, James accused the operators of patient neglect, using public money to pad the payroll and underreporting COVID-19 deaths. Newsday reported in September 2020, a month after its investigation was published, that the state attorney general’s office had launched its own investigation of Cold Spring Hills.
Reporting further indicates Pennsylvania didn’t act fast enough to implement strike teams to confront nursing home outbreaks and how the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated longstanding problems with state oversight of the facilities. (NEWS10/WETM) — According to a report released by the New York Post Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers during a phone call for allegedly withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19. As politicians, health experts and federal investigators called for complete figures for the deaths of nursing home residents, the Cuomo administration continued to delay the data’s release, saying more time was need to compile and verify it. The Times subsequently reported on the more sustained effort to hide the death toll among nursing home residents. That effort included the burying of a scientific paper that incorporated the death data, the delayed release of a top Cuomo aide’s audit of the figures, and a failure to send two letters drafted by the Health Department that were meant for state legislators. During the first few months of the pandemic, from March to June of 2020 when nursing home staffing across the country was stretched beyond thin, 166 Cold Spring Hills residents died, 98 of which were from COVID.
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