Henry J. Carter Skilled Nursing Facility received 8 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 6, 2020. The facility has also been the subject of a 2016 fine of $12,000 in connection to findings during a 2012 inspection that […]
Neglect
New East Side Nursing Home Cited, Fined $12,000
New East Side Nursing Home received 21 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 7, 2020. The facility has also been the subject of a 2011 fine of $12,000 in connection to findings during a 2010 inspection that it […]
Northern Manhattan Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Cited for Medication Errors
Northern Manhattan Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 24 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 7, 2020. The Manhattan nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. […]
Northern Riverview Health Care Center Cited for Unnecessary Drugs
Northern Riverview Health Care Center received 26 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 14, 2020. The Haverstraw nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The […]
New York Nursing Home Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center Cited & Fined for Health Code Violations
Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center received 48 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 20, 2020. The facility has also been the subject of a 2013 fine of $12,000 in connection to findings during a 2013 inspection that it violated […]
Glen Arden Nursing Home Cited for Elopement
Glen Arden received 15 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 20, 2020. The Goshen nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The nursing home did […]
New York Nursing Home Daleview Care Center Cited for Accident Hazards
Daleview Care Center received 19 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on February 27, 2020. The Farmingdale nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The nursing home […]
The Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Fined $58,000
The Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation & Nursing Center received 28 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 17, 2020. The facility has also received five fines between 2013 and 2019, totaling $58,000, for findings that it violated health code […]
Hill Haven Nursing Home: 16 Covid-19 Deaths
Hill Haven Nursing Home suffered 16 fatalities from Covid-19 as of July 12, 2020, state records report. The nursing home also received 29 citations over violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to health records accessed on July 13, 2020. The Webster nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of seven surveys […]
Presbyterian Home for Central New York: Infection Citations, Covid Deaths
Presbyterian Home for Central New York suffered 15 fatalities from Covid-19 as of July 12, 2020, per state records. The nursing home also received 37 citations finding it violated public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to health records accessed on July 13, 2020; two such citations found deficiencies in the facility’s infection control […]
Study: Nursing Home Deaths Tied To Staffing Levels
A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society concludes that nursing homes with low staffing levels, low quality scores, and high concentrations of disadvantaged residents also experience “higher rates of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths.” The study’s lead author, Yue Li, a professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of […]
Forbes: Nursing Home Immunity “An Appalling Abuse of the Law”
A June 12 report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service disclosed that 31,782 nursing home residents died as a result of COVID-19 as of May 31, 2020. This accounts for about one-third of the known COVID-19 deaths in the United States, according to a column in Forbes, with “the highest number of deaths” […]
St. Catherine of Siena Nursing and Rehabilitation Care Center Cited for Med Errors
St. Catherine of Siena Nursing and Rehabilitation Care Center received 12 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 11, 2020. The Smithtown nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include […]
Wingate at Beacon: 19 Reported Covid-19 Deaths
Wingate at Beacon suffered 19 deaths from Covid-19 as of May 24, 2020, per state records. The nursing home also received 25 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 26, 2020. The facility has additionally received three enforcement actions: […]
Coronavirus Negligence Alleged at Northern Manhattan Rehabilitation Center
A woman has the Northern Manhattan Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home in New York City, over allegations it “failed to implement basic health guidelines” to protect its residents from the risk of coronavirus and Covid-19. A New York Post article published on May 25, 2019 reports that the woman’s father died of Covid-19 in the […]
Debate Erupts Over Covid-19 Liability Shield for Nursing Home Officials
A new investigation by the journalism project Too Much Information, co-published in the Guardian, reports that less than two years after the Greater New York Hospital Association contributed more than $1 million to a committee supporting New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2018 reelection campaign, he signed a little-noticed provision in the state budget legislation “shielding […]
Father Baker Manor: 62 Covid-19 Deaths, Cited for Infection
Father Baker Manor experienced 62 deaths from Covid-19 as of May 31, 2020, per state records. The nursing home also received 20 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to health records accessed on June 1, 2020. The Orchard Park nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of six surveys […]
Hebrew Home at Riverdale Cited for Infection Control Practices
Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale received 38 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on May 11, 2020. The Riverdale nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: […]
Whistleblowers: Hebrew Home in Riverdale Conceals Covid Deaths
Staffers at the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, New York allege that the nursing home has covered up almost a hundred COVID-19-related deaths, according to a May 9, 2020 report in the New York Post. Whistleblowers say that whereas the nursing home has officially reported 25 resident deaths from confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 in […]
Report Alleges COVID-19 Negligence at New York State Veterans’ Home
New York State Veterans’ Home in St. Albans, in Queens, has violated Health Department coronavirus protocols, according to a May 5, 2020 report by THE CITY. Facility employees told the publication that the nursing home was failing to separate roommates in cases where one had a suspected case of COVID-19; and that the nursing home […]
St. Cabrini Nursing Home: Staff Alleges Coronavirus Negligence
Staffers at St. Cabrini Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry, New York allege that the facility has exhibited negligence in its response to the coronavirus, according to news reports. Employees describe a shortage of personal protective equipment provided by the facility administration, with some “wearing garbage bags out of desperation.” One employee told Westchester’s News 12, […]
Questions Linger About Deaths at Sapphire Nursing Home in Queens
An April 16, 2020 report by the New York Times raised questions about whether Sapphire Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Queens, New York was accurately the number of residents who died during the coronavirus outbreak. Although the facility’s administration informed Queens state representative Ronald Kim that a total of 29 residents died, according to […]
New York Nursing Home New Franklin Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Fined for Health Code Violations
A report by the State of New York found that New Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Flushing, Queens, was the home of about one-fifth of the 200 COVID-19-related deaths in Queens. As of April 17, 2020, that nursing home had suffered 44 deaths related to the disease, according to the Queens Daily Eagle. […]
Smithtown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Care Cited for Accident Hazard
Smithtown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Care received 11 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on April 10, 2020. The Smithtown nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: […]
Fairview Rehab & Nursing Home: COVID Concerns
Healthcare workers at Fairview Rehab & Nursing Home recently described what they called “crazy” conditions at the Queens facility, according to an April 20, 2020 report by Gothamist. One of the staff members said she showed up for a job interview and was “whisked” through a training session and hired immediately, with the nurse leading […]