Feb 1, 2021
At The Gardens at Stevens, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Denver, Pennsylvania, 39 residents had died of COVID-19 as of the publication of LancasterOnline journalist Nicole C. Brambila’s investigative article published in the Jan. 17 edition.
“The Gardens at Stevens is a troubling outlier in Pennsylvania,” Brambila reported. “The death toll is second only in Lancaster County to the 446-bed Conestoga View Nursing and Rehabilitation in Lancaster Township, which is five times larger. Statewide, only about 20 of Pennsylvania’s nearly 700 nursing homes have had more deaths.”
So, what went wrong? Brambila asks that question early in her article detailing the devastating, outsize loss that has occurred at the small Denver facility.
New York State Team
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare fundamental flaws in the oversight, regulation and operation of nursing homes in New York, according to a state Attorney General’s Office investigation.
From nursing home owners potentially putting profits over resident safety to poorly trained workers stretched to the breaking point due to understaffing, the failure to protect frail and elderly New Yorkers most vulnerable to the coronavirus stemmed from systemic problems within the long-term care industry, the investigation asserted.
“New York needs to ensure that nursing homes take care of our seniors and our most vulnerable residents with dignity, respect and the sufficient care that the law requires and that the public primarily funds,” investigators wrote in the bombshell report released Thursday.
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are white, even though they represent only 32 percent of the city’s population. On the other side, Black and Latino residents make up only 11 percent and 15 percent of vaccine recipients, respectively, compared to being 24 and 29 percent of the population.
AG s nursing home report casts light on long-held staffing concerns
AG s nursing home report casts light on long-held staffing concerns
Report found direct correlation between short-staffed homes and increased COVID-19 deaths, renewing calls for better oversight and safe staffing laws
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FILE - In this June 11, 2019, file photo New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Mary Altaffer
When Ann first started working as a housekeeper at a Hudson Valley nursing home three years ago, each of the facility’s three wings had two housekeepers in charge of cleaning and disinfecting.
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