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In reply to the discussion: Cuomo says New York followed federal guidelines when sending coronavirus patients to nursing homes [View all]LisaL
(44,972 posts)7. Nope, they weren't screening.
They reversed the policy recently, but originally they required nursing homes to take in patients even if those patients had covid.
"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a requirement for hospital patients to test negative for the coronavirus before they can be discharged to nursing homes, effectively reversing a much-criticized state policy that required long-term care facilities to accept recovering patients who may still test positive for COVID-19."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-will-no-longer-require-nursing-homes-take-covid-n1204586
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Cuomo says New York followed federal guidelines when sending coronavirus patients to nursing homes [View all]
alp227
May 2020
OP
Sounds right. Trumps appointees have been running the show for 3 years and six months.
pwb
May 2020
#1
They were not allowed to. The Federal Government controls the Comfort and Mercy, and they were
AtheistCrusader
May 2020
#44
Assuming they were screening the people transferred by testing them to make sure
cstanleytech
May 2020
#6
New York was going to get hit hard, but sending covid positive patients into nursing homes
LisaL
May 2020
#10
Nursing homes were told they were required to accept any positive cases that were sent to them
MichMan
May 2020
#17
Whitmer ordered that nursing homes not equipped to handle COVID-19 cases to transfer the resident
Kaleva
May 2020
#23
Only if the nursing home had a dedicated unit that could handle COVID-19 residents
Kaleva
May 2020
#24
Family of victim want to know why he was taken from his apt and placed in a that home.
Kaleva
May 2020
#28
I think the nursing home screwed up palcing the young man in the same room as the elderly man
Kaleva
May 2020
#34
The best I can figure out, the nursing home is where 20 year old was placed after covid diagnosis.
LisaL
May 2020
#36
Michigan can't even provide any data on how many deaths occurred in nursing homes
MichMan
May 2020
#42