A third-party auditor will review the New York state government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts by the administration of the previous governor to downplay the number of deaths of nursing home residents.
The governor, who is running for her first full term in November and won the recent June Democratic gubernatorial primary, promised in mid-March to eventually launch a review of the state’s COVID-19 response.
"New Yorkers who have lived through being at the epicenter of a global pandemic, lost loved ones, and experienced economic hardship deserve a thoughtful, meaningful, and independent after action review, and we won’t rush through this important work for the political calendar,” Crampton-Hays said in a statement.
After her predecessor's controversial decision to put nursing home residents back in their homes after recovering from COVID-19 early in the pandemic, Gov. Kathy Hochul is apologizing to their families. Andrew Siff reports. That toll excluded the deaths of over 4,000 New Yorkers, according to numbers released by the state in January 2021 in the wake of a damning attorney general report. James' report also found a lack of infection controls at nursing homes put residents at increased risk of harm.
Kim also wants scrutiny of a March 2020 directive that barred nursing homes from rejecting recovering coronavirus patients being discharged from hospitals. Meanwhile, DiNapoli found “persistent underinvestment in public health” may have hampered New York's pandemic response, as local and state health agencies struggled with inadequate staffing.
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