‘WE CARE’ REMEMBRANCE SOUGHT Oberacker To Urge Probe In Nursing-Home Deaths ALBANY – State Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, today attended a memorial gathering marking the one-year anniversary of the Cuomo Administration’s order that sent COVID-positive patients directly into New York’s nursing homes. Oberacker told the gathering he is co-sponsoring a Senate Resolution (J554) which would designate March 25 as “We Care” Remembrance Day.…
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At Woodside Hall, Not One COVID Case In Year The Rules Are Clear, Says Proprietor, But They Must Be Enforced Every Day By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ‘When I was a child, a classmate was one of the last Americans to have polio,” said Woodside Hall proprietor Stephen Cadwalader. “What if COVID-19 is like polio? That’s what went through my mind.” So here we are, a year since the coronavirus arrived – Governor Cuomo reported Tuesday was the…
FALL from GLORY Probe Of Cuomo Administration Must Run Its Course Editor’s Note: By covering stories other big newspapers have ignored, the New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, is regaining some of its luster. In this latest editorial on the Cuomo Administration’s latest crisis, it questions whether campaign contributions played a role in the March 25 order requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients. Also, below, is a sampling of editorials on the issue. Governor Cuomo is…
COVID RIPS FOX 97 Ill, 12 Dead At Nursing Home By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A coronavirus outbreak swept through Fox Nursing Home mid-January, sickening 97 staff and residents, and ultimately killing 12 of the residents. “After more than 10 months with no resident cases, the outbreak occurred suddenly with half of the total cases occurring within a week of onset,” Fox Hospital spokesperson Gabrielle Argo confirmed. The first COVID cases among residents were confirmed on Jan.…
Blockbuster REPORT: Nursing Home Residents Poorly Served Editor’s Note: Here are the recommendations in state Attorney General Letitia James’ report, “Nursing Home Response to COVID-19 Pandemic,” which also discovered nursing-home deaths may be 50 percent higher than the Cuomo Administration let on. For Complete Text Click Here. •Ensure public reporting by each nursing home as to the number of COVID-19 deaths of residents occurring at the facility — and those that occur during or after hospitalization of the residents —…
Salka ‘Appalled’ If Governor Hid Aged Death Rate AG Letitia James’ Study Concludes Nursing Home Fatalities 50% Short By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – That state Attorney General Letitia James concluded the Cuomo Administration underreported COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by half is “appalling,” Assemblyman John Salka, R-Brookfield, declared in a statement released this afternoon. An investigation by James’ office concluded the administration undercounted coronavirus-related deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50 percent, the New…