House investigators in both parties faulted Democrat-led states Wednesday for issuing “must admit” policies that allowed coronavirus-positive residents to return to nursing homes regardless of whether the facilities had safeguards in place, as federal guidance required.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Ohio Republican and chairman of the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, said the orders had “predictable and deadly consequences” in three states. There were 15,000 COVID-19 nursing home deaths in New York, 12,500 in Pennsylvania and 9,000 in New Jersey.
The Trump administration’s federal insurance agency issued guidance in March 2020 that said nursing homes should readmit COVID-positive residents only if the facilities could do so safely with isolation protocols that prevented transmission. “Even viewed in the best light, this was an act of desperation,” said Mr. Hammond, whose fiscally conservative think tank is based in Albany, New York. “State officials in effect were trying to avert a crisis in the hospitals by creating a crisis in the nursing homes.”
“We need to learn from this tragedy to make sure it never happens again,” Ms. Dean said. “To turn grief into purpose and find out what happened to our parents and our grandparents who trusted us and our leaders to look out for them.” State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s audit, released Tuesday, found the administration undercounted deaths by 4,071 from April 2020 to February 2021, with 13,147 deaths occurring but only 9,076 reported.
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