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MI House Committee Asks Auditor General to Investigate Nursing Home Deaths Report

Coronavirus Deaths In MI Nursing Homes: State Stands By Numbers

UpdatedFri, Jun 4, 2021 at 10:03 am ET Replies(2) Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel said Thursday the state has no reason to hide deaths in long-term facilities​. (Shutterstock) LANSING, MI Following reports that the state undercounted the number of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, Michigan s leading health official said the state s numbers are accurate and such claims are erroneous. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel said Thursday the state has no reason to hide deaths in long-term facilities, telling lawmakers at a Republican-led House Oversight Committee there was no undercount of such deaths.

Michigan health chief: COVID death count in long-term facilities may be low

But Hertel stood by the state’s total of deaths in nursing homes, which are licensed by the state and have drawn controversy because of Whitmer’s decision early in the pandemic to use some as “hubs” for recovering COVID patients. “What the nursing homes are reporting are accurate,” Hertel said, adding they had no “reason or incentive to hide (deaths).”  Republicans nonetheless are calling for an audit, following a story first reported in Deadline Detroit that the state discovered 648 nursing home deaths among nearly 1,500 deaths from March through June 2020 in which COVID-19 was suspected after a review of death and medical records.

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