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Houses Split On Nursing Home Reform And Emergency Powers


PUBLISHED 7:58 PM ET Feb. 22, 2021
PUBLISHED 7:58 PM EST Feb. 22, 2021
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The New York State Senate passed ten nursing home reform bills on Monday, but that is as far as some of these bills might go.
Speaker Carl Heastie said that the Assembly is likely to pass their own set of reform bills, which means both houses will need to come to an agreement before any bill can be signed into law.
However, the focus over recent days has shifted further away from reform and more on limiting the governor’s emergency powers after his top aide, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, admitted the state intentionally withheld the number of COVID-related nursing home deaths. ....

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N.Y. State Senate Approves Package Of Bills Related To Nursing Homes


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New York state could require nursing homes to spend a certain amount of their revenue on direct patient care, mandate transparent reporting of COVID-19 deaths of residents at those facilities and more under a package of bills passed by the State Senate Monday.
The legislation is the result of a pair of public hearings on the state’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes last summer, coupled with new revelations about the Cuomo administration.
Democrats, who control both chambers of the state Legislature, had already teed up the package of bills for passage a few weeks ago, but new information about the state’s decisions related to nursing homes has fueled that fire in recent days. ....

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