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“#DOJ demands NY nursing home data after COVID-19 death undercount<\/strong>”
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\n WASHINGTON \u2014 The Justice Department is requesting more data on COVID-19 deaths linked to New York nursing homes after receiving figures that indicate a significant under-count of deaths at publicly run nursing homes in the state.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s civil division on Tuesday night requested from state officials data on deaths linked to New York\u2019s more than 1,000 private nursing homes.<\/p>\n

New York records provided in response to an August Justice Department inquiry indicated that a quarter of deaths in the state\u2019s roughly two dozen public nursing homes weren\u2019t disclosed to federal health officials, administration sources said.<\/p>\n

New York indicated that about 400 residents of the state\u2019s public facilities died from COVID-19, according to federal sources, who said that state facilities had only disclosed about 300 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/p>\n

In total, the New York Health Department publicly reports about 6,720 deaths from the serious respiratory bug in nursing homes and adult-care facilities. But the true scope of New York\u2019s tragic toll in nursing homes is expected to be much higher.<\/p>\n

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has angrily denied accusations that a March 25 state rule barring nursing homes from turning away coronavirus-positive patients contributed significantly to New York\u2019s 33,000 COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s detractors see blood on his hands as he embarks on a self-congratulatory book tour crediting himself with a successful pandemic response and faulting President Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to determine is why these people died so it doesn\u2019t happ<\/a>en again,\u201d an administration official said. \u201cWe\u2019re going where the greatest carnage occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s office denounced<\/a> the initial August request for data as \u201cnothing more than a transparent politicization of the Department of Justice.\u201d A spokesman did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment on the latest federal action.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s civil rights division in August sought the initial data from New York on publicly run nursing homes under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.<\/p>\n

The division launched an investigation in April of a publicly run nursing home in Republican-governed Massachusetts and on Tuesday night informed New Jersey it was opening an investigation of two of its three publicly run nursing homes, after New Jersey officials declined to reply to an August request for data.<\/p>\n

The New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park and the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Paramus are being investigated under the civil rights law.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s civil division is seeking the New York data on private homes under its authority to police against \u201cgrossly substandard care\u201d for Medicare and Medicaid recipients, Assistant Attorney General<\/a> Jeffrey Bossert Clark wrote in a letter to the New York State Department of Health.<\/p>\n

There are two possible reasons for the New York death undercount at public homes, officials said.<\/p>\n

One explanation is that some residents died in hospitals and weren\u2019t reported in the prior count. Another is that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services mandated that tallies of deaths be reported to the CDC as of May, but did not require retroactive counting.<\/p>\n

An Associated<\/span>\u00a0Press<\/span>\u00a0analysis<\/span><\/a> in August found 11,000 New York nursing home residents may have died from COVID-19.\n <\/div>\n