Last week the Federal Highway Administration, a division of the US Department of Transportation, announced the allocation of $59 billion in grant funding to improve infrastructure at railway crossings in four states: California, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. According to a FHWA press release, the funding is intended “to help save lives with safer crossings.” […]
Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Cited for Fall, Medication Errors
Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received 61 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 23, 2022. The Buffalo nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 12 inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. […]
NHTSA: US Still in Roadway Death “Crisis”
The United States is still in a traffic violence crisis, according to recently released traffic fatalities data by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the US Department of Transportation. The agency’s preliminary estimates for the first half of 2021 show that approximately “20,175 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes, an increase […]
St. Margaret’s Center: Nursing Home Cited for Accident, Understaffing
St. Margaret’s Center received 50 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 23, 2022. The Albany nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 11 surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing home […]
After Deadly Crash, NTSB Calls for Impaired Driving Detection Tech
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a call for automotive regulators to require the inclusion alcohol impairment detection systems in all newly manufactured vehicles. According to a press release by the agency, the call resulted from an NTSB investigation into a January 2021 crash in Avenal, California, in which the driver was impaired and […]
The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Barnwell Cited for Fall
The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Barnwell received 102 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 23, 2022. The Valatie nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 23 surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: […]
Transportation Officials: Are Self-Driving Cars Too Dangerous for City Streets?
The National Association of City Transportation Officials has written a letter to automotive regulators voicing its opposition to requests by Ford and GM temporary exemptions from federal safety standards governing self-driving cars. If granted, the exemptions would allow the manufacturers “to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles without human controls or functions on US […]
Foltsbrook Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Cited for Falls, Pests
Foltsbrook Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation received 49 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 16, 2022. The Herkimer nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
Reports: SUV Crash Kills Brooklyn Child
Traffic violence claimed the life of a 9-year-old child in Brooklyn, New York last week, when the driver of an SUV turned into a driveway and hit the boy, Young An Li, on the sidewalk. According to the New York Daily News, the incident occurred in Sheepshead Bay at approximately 2:35pm on Friday, September 16th. […]
New York Congregational Nursing Center: Pressure Ulcer Citation
New York Congregational Nursing Center received 30 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 16, 2022. The Brooklyn nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The […]
NHTSA Pledges To Take Action On “Frontover” Crashes
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration recently responded to a request by Congress to take actions to investigate and prevent “frontover” car accidents, in which vehicles with large blind spots strike and run over children. In an August 25, 2022 letter, NHTSA Administrator Steven Cliff told US Senator Richard Blumenthal that the agency “is committed […]
Rebekah Rehab and Extended Care Cited for Abuse, Falls
Rebekah Rehab and Extended Care Center received 25 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 16, 2022. The Bronx nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
Brooklyn Construction Worker Killed by Falling Excavator Arm
A tragic construction accident in Brooklyn took the life of a 46-year-old worker last week. According to a report by the New York Post, the worker “was standing” at the worksite, at 1 Java Street in Greenpoint, when a 2,000-pound excavator arm fell on top of him. Police told reporters that the worker was found […]
Troy Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing: Medication Errors
Troy Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing received 52 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 16, 2022. The Troy nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
New York DOB Audit Finds Worksite Inspection Flaws
A recent audit of construction worksite safety oversight by the New York City Department of Buildings revealed flaws in the regulator’s inspection practices. As the DOB stated in a report on the audit, “We found OB’s oversight of building construction sites, including construction site inspections and safety, and enforcement activity need to be improved.” The […]
Hudson Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Cited for Accident Hazard
Hudson Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 45 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 5, 2022. The Albany nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 13 inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. […]
Facing Extreme Heat, Will UPS Workers Strike?
A recent report by progressive magazine In These Times gave voice to UPS delivery workers calling upon their company to do more to keep them safe from extreme heat. Representatives for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents UPS workers, told the publication that even as UPS’s profits have risen over the last several years, […]
Valley View Manor: Nursing Home Cited for Inadequate Bedsore Care
Valley View Manor Nursing Home received 27 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 5, 2022. The Norwich nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 5 inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The […]
Report: SUV With 168 Violations Hits, Kills Bronx Woman
A New York City woman died last week after the driver of an SUV jumped the curb and struck her, impaling her on a metal fence. According to media reports, the 59-year-old Bronx resident, Paulina Nrecaj, was taken to a local hospital, where she died after surgery. “She was a good, sweet woman,” her daughter […]
Alice Hyde Medical Center: Multiple Accident Citations
Alice Hyde Medical Center received 29 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 5, 2022. The Malone nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 5 inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The nursing […]
Report: Heavy Electric Cars Do More Damage in Crashes
Recent tests by Swiss insurance company AXA Switzerland highlight the dangers of electric vehicles. As an analysis by Streetsblog explains, the company’s research found that electric cars “cause more damage in collisions than conventional cars” and that their larger size increases the risks they pose, both to pedestrians and to occupants in lighter vehicles. “[D]rivers […]
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center Cited for Fall
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center received 130 citations for violations of public health code between 2018 and 2022, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on September 2, 2022. The Campbell Hall nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 35 inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: 1. The […]
Report: Delivery Workers Suffering, Dying Under Excessive Heat
Delivery workers across the country are sounding alarm bells about the deadly risks they face in extreme heat. According to a recent report by the New York Times, hundreds of drivers for UPS, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service “have been sickened and in many cases hospitalized from heat exposure” since 2015, a figure […]
Do Private Equity Takeovers Negatively Impact Nursing Home Care?
A recent New Yorker feature story examines the effects of private equity acquisitions on nursing home care. Based on firsthand accounts from a nursing home acquired by a private equity firm, and drawing from recent academic research, the article makes a compelling and heartbreaking argument that acquisitions lead to drastic staffing cuts and diminished care, […]
Report: NYC to Address McGuinness Boulevard Safety Issues
New York City transportation authorities will implement short-term safety adjustments in advance of the large-scale redesign of a dangerous stretch of North Brooklyn roadway. According to a report by Streetsblog, the Department of Transportation has said it will implement painted median-tip extensions and daylighting measures on McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, while banning left at certain […]
