{"id":9691,"date":"2020-06-17T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/underfunded-nyc-nursing-home-program-lead-to-massive-coronavirus-death-toll\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:59:00","slug":"underfunded-nyc-nursing-home-program-lead-to-massive-coronavirus-death-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/underfunded-nyc-nursing-home-program-lead-to-massive-coronavirus-death-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"#Underfunded NYC nursing home program lead to massive coronavirus death toll"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Underfunded NYC nursing home program lead to massive coronavirus death toll<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 17, 2020 |<\/span> 9:59am <\/p>\n

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\n EMTs at the Cobble Hill Health Center nursing home<\/span>
\n Annie Wermiel<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n The city and state severely shortchanged a federally-mandated program designed to protect\u00a0nursing<\/span>\u00a0home<\/span> residents, leading to the disproportionate death toll of elderly New Yorkers from the coronavirus, according to an alarming new report by City Comptroller Scott Stringer.<\/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. 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 Bill de Blasio contributed $0 to five years of funding for the program in 2017 and Gov. Andrew 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

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The ombudsmen identify abuse and neglect in nursing<\/span>\u00a0homes and other long-term care facilities, but have been barred along with other visitors from checking in on residents during the coronavirus pandemic<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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

Reps for de Blasio and Cuomo did not immedia<\/a>tely return messages seeking comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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