Comptroller blasts state DOH over nursing home COVID response

Comptroller blasts state DOH over nursing home COVID response

ALBANY — The state Comptroller’s Office on Tuesday released an audit highly critical of the state Department of Health and its response to nursing homes amid the COVID pandemic. Among the key findings were that DOH: Was ill-prepared to respond to infectious diseases even before the pandemic hit New York in March 2020; Became part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s deliberate under-reporting of the terrible death toll in nursing homes;  Stalled on a federal directive to survey nursing homes for infection control problems; Knew one of its key informational systems was incomplete and unreliable long before the pandemic but took no…
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