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As of early June, 38 of 311 long-term care facilities statewide had failed to report COVID-19 death data, as required, and the state did not require reports from facilities that serve 12 or fewer residents. Ringler, in a June 30 letter released Wednesday by Johnson’s office, said he intended to “act upon” the request for a review. But it could take months, Ringler said, predicting the audit will not be complete until late September or October. “We will be working with various departments’ databases to address your concerns, which will impact the timing of our work,” he wrote. The ...

Print this article Michigan's auditor general will investigate COVID-19 deaths in the state's nursing homes. Doug Ringler, the auditor general of Michigan, responded to a request by Michigan House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Steven Johnson to perform a review of how many individuals died in nursing homes and long-term care facilities due to COVID-19. "We will be working with various departments' databases to address your concerns, which will impact the timing of our work," Ringler wrote, adding the audit is expected to be completed sometime between late September and mid-October, accor...

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) / Twitter Josh Christenson • July 7, 2021 6:29 pm SHARE Michigan's top government oversight official is investigating the number of residents who died from COVID-19 in nursing homes as a result of a controversial public health policy mandated by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D.). Michigan auditor general Doug Ringler announced the audit last week following legislative hearings that questioned the accuracy of state data on COVID-related deaths in long-term care facilities. Republicans have argued Whitmer's administration undercounted deaths after the go...

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 ...

(The Center Square) – Lingering doubts about the integrity of the November 2020 national election have prompted state Rep. Julie Alexander, R-Jackson, to request that Auditor General Doug Ringler conduct