“Gov. Cuomo and the state Health Department officials were accused of obscuring a more accurate estimate of nursing home deaths because the state only counted deaths at the actual facilities, rather than including deaths of residents who were transferred to a hospital and died there.” AG James stated.
“AG James has released a 76-page report which consistently found discrepancies between deaths reported to the attorney general’s investigators and those officially released by the Health Department.”
“In one instance, an unnamed facility reported 11 confirmed and presumed deaths to the Health Department as happening on site through early August. The attorney general’s survey of that same facility, however, found 40 deaths, including 27 at the home and 13 in hospitals,” the NY Times reported.
“Preliminary data obtained by O.A.G. suggests that many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in D.O.H.’s published total nursing home death data,” a summary of the report’s findings read.
