Bombshell: Top New Jersey Officials Were Warned In Advance That Putting Covid Patients In Nursing Homes Would Needlessly Kill Nursing Home Patients.
Audio of a conference call between the Murphy administration and the administrators of the state's nursing homes has been released and it is devastating. A speaker on the call came right out and argued and warned them that this policy would needlessly kill their patients..........and sure enough it did. 8,000 seniors in New Jersey's nursing homes did not have to die.
Here is the story:
For Murphy and Cuomo, questions persist over decision to readmit nursing home residents. Here’s what happened.
By Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com and Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The conversation was tense.
New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli began the March 31 conference call with hundreds of long-term care facility operators explaining they were expected to allow nursing home patients recovering from COVID-19 to return from the hospital.
But while she made it clear that they would be required to assign separate staff and separate them from other residents — or to let the state know right away if that was not possible — the exasperation on the other end of the phone was palpable.
“Patients will die,” an unidentified administrator declared, according to a recording of the outspoken meeting obtained by NJ Advance Media. “You understand that by asking us to take COVID patients, by demanding we take COVID patients, that patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn’t have otherwise died had we screened them out.”
Nearly 12 months later, questions continue to swirl around the decision to send patients back into nursing homes, both in New Jersey and in New York, two states with the highest number of nursing home deaths nationwide. The directive remains a lightning rod for criticism, amid a belief that lives were lost because of it, even though each state provided alternative housing for nursing homes unable to sequester residents.
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Audio of a conference call between the Murphy administration and the administrators of the state's nursing homes has been released and it is devastating. A speaker on the call came right out and argued and warned them that this policy would needlessly kill their patients..........and sure enough it did. 8,000 seniors in New Jersey's nursing homes did not have to die.
Here is the story:
For Murphy and Cuomo, questions persist over decision to readmit nursing home residents. Here’s what happened.
By Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com and Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The conversation was tense.
New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli began the March 31 conference call with hundreds of long-term care facility operators explaining they were expected to allow nursing home patients recovering from COVID-19 to return from the hospital.
But while she made it clear that they would be required to assign separate staff and separate them from other residents — or to let the state know right away if that was not possible — the exasperation on the other end of the phone was palpable.
“Patients will die,” an unidentified administrator declared, according to a recording of the outspoken meeting obtained by NJ Advance Media. “You understand that by asking us to take COVID patients, by demanding we take COVID patients, that patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn’t have otherwise died had we screened them out.”
Nearly 12 months later, questions continue to swirl around the decision to send patients back into nursing homes, both in New Jersey and in New York, two states with the highest number of nursing home deaths nationwide. The directive remains a lightning rod for criticism, amid a belief that lives were lost because of it, even though each state provided alternative housing for nursing homes unable to sequester residents.
Full story below:
For Murphy and Cuomo, questions persist over decision to readmit nursing home residents. Here’s what happened.
Two governors from states which saw thousands of long-term care residents die in the pandemic are under scrutiny for their decisions.
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