covid nursing homes

New York’s Comptroller finds that the state’s nursing homes still lag in preparedness for another pandemic or infectious disease outbreak, two and a half years after a scandal surrounding thousands of nursing home deaths during COVID-19 that contributed to the resignation of a former governor.

Advocates for nursing home workers say the state health department is trying to undermine a law meant to establish minimum staffing requirements.

The New York State legislature approved measures that will require that hospitals and nursing homes meet minimum staffing levels of nurses and other…

Critics of some of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic marked the anniversary of the controversial March 25, 2020…

Residents of nursing homes in New York will be able to receive visitors again, starting this Friday, February 26th, under new rules laid out by Governor…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched an attack on one of the critics of his nursing home policies - Assemblyman Ron Kim, who lost his uncle to COVID-19 in a nursing…

Republican State Senators and some family members of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 say they are still looking for answers from Governor…

Governor Andrew Cuomo continues to blame what he says is an “ongoing political attack” for the controversy over the number of nursing home deaths in New…

A small band of protesters gathered outside the State Capitol to demand that Governor Andrew Cuomo loosen restrictions for visiting residents at nursing…

Family members of nursing home residents, testifying at a legislative hearing this week, told harrowing tales of neglect and unresponsive staff and…