{"id":10320,"date":"2020-06-18T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-state-failed-to-fund-nursing-home-watchdogs-report-says\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:32:00","slug":"nyc-state-failed-to-fund-nursing-home-watchdogs-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-state-failed-to-fund-nursing-home-watchdogs-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC, state failed to fund nursing home watchdogs, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC, state failed to fund nursing home watchdogs, report says<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 17, 2020 |<\/span> 10:32pm <\/p>\n

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\n The city and state severely shortchanged a federally mandated program designed to protect nursing home residents, leading to the disproportionate death toll of elderly New Yorkers from the coronavirus, a new report by City Comptroller Scott Stringer charges.<\/p>\n

The investigation found that New York City has just one full-time ombudsman for every 8,650 long-term-care residents when national guidelines dictate one watchdog for every 2,000 people.<\/p>\n

There are only six watchdogs assigned to visit the city\u2019s 50,000 residents across 244 facilities. In Queens, a single ombudsman assisted by nine volunteers is responsible for watching over 17,000 residents in 84 facilities.<\/p>\n

Over 20,000 residents in 80 long-term care facilities across the five boroughs have no assigned ombudsman.<\/p>\n

The state ranked 40th nationally in full-time ombudsmen per bed in 2018.<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio contributed zero dollars to five years of funding for the program in 2017, and Gov. Cuomo contributed just $600,000 for the city. The lowball amount works out to $7.34 per resident bed while the rest of the nation spends more than twice that on the program, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis investigation is heartbreaking, especially as New York City continues to battle the global COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated our parents and grandparents in long-term-care facilities,\u201d Stringer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTragically our failure to support long-term care can be measured in human suffering amid the pandemic. The disproportionately high number of COVID-19 deaths among our long-term-care-facility residents must be a wake-up call,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The ombudsmen identify abuse and neglect in nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities but have been barred along with other visitors from checking in on residents during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) has asked the governor to connect residents to ombudsmen through the telephone and e-mail during the crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cScott Stringer is right on target about the underfunding of the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program,\u201d Gottfried told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a vital program for nursing-home residents and their families, and it relies heavily on volunteers. Our nursing homes are chronically understaffed, and the state\u2019s quality enforcement is understaffed and lax,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Of the state\u2019s nearly 25,000 coronavirus deaths, 6,208 were nursing-home residents, about half of those fatalities were in New York City facilities.<\/p>\n

Stringer recommends increasing city and state funding to at least $2.5 million annually to provide for a full-time ombudsman for every 2,000 nursing-home residents.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for de Blasio claimed funding for the program was the state\u2019s sole responsibility.<\/p>\n

A rep for Cuomo said visitors were barred from the facilities during the pandemic to stop the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thesis of this report is just plain wrong,\u201d said Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.<\/p>\n

He added that the state\u2019s Department of Health has inspected 1,000 nursing homes since March 1, and last year ombudsmen investigated 4,880 complaints.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re currently working on ways to reinvent the program to expand volunteer base and give increased options for communication between residents and ombudsmen that are less reliant on in-person visits,\u201d Azzopardi said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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