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ALBANY - The director of New York's nationally recognized Wadsworth Laboratory retired last September amid the COVID pandemic. Now the deputy director is also set to leave after 28 years at the lab, another major loss to the beleaguered state Department of Health. The loss of Jill Taylor and the pending departure of Victoria Derbyshire, who recently signaled her intent to retire from the Albany-based lab, are among at least a dozen top health officials in New York who have either quit, retired or were reassigned in recent months, according to sources and public records. The top doctors an...

REVEALED: Cuomo administration began tracking COVID-19 related deaths in nursing homes last April but left the full toll out of a state health department report three months later New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo 's administration reportedly started tracking COVID-19 related nursing home resident deaths as early as last April The state Health Department sent a memo on April 18 telling care homes to report COVID-19 deaths among residents whether they died in the facility or not That memo came nearly 11 weeks before the Health Department released a report on July 6 that excluded residents who did no...

For Murphy and Cuomo, questions persist over decision to readmit nursing home residents. Here’s what happened. Updated Mar 22, 2021; Posted Mar 14, 2021 N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy (l.) and N.Y. Andrew Cuomo face questions on their handling of the crisis in the nursing homes of their respective states. New York's attorney general has been particularly critical.Ed Murray and NY Governor's Office Facebook Share Twitter Share The conversation was tense. New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli began the March 31 conference call with hundreds of long-term care facility operators explainin...

Black firefighters group’s building was torn down by city. Now, they want answers. Updated Mar 13, 2021; Posted Mar 13, 2021 The lot at 97-99 Clinton Ave. in Newark's Central Ward now sits empty. The lot is owned by the Vulcan Pioneers of Newark and the structure there was torn down by the city in November.Rebecca Panico | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Facebook Share Charles Mitchell was shocked when he started getting calls on a Saturday in November telling him the City of Newark was demolishing the headquarters of the Vulcan Pioneers of Newark, a fraternal organization of Black firefighte...

One of the senior aides to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused of rewriting a State Health Department report to hide the real number of nursing home residents that died amid the COVID-19 pandemic [...]