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Source: New York Required Nursing Homes To Admit \u2018Medically Stable\u2019 Coronavirus Patients. The Results Were Deadly. | The Daily Wire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n On March 25, New York\u2019s Health Department issued a mandate that state nursing homes could not refuse COVID-19-positive patients who were \u201cmedically stable,\u201d meaning facilities that housed the most vulnerable populations were forced to introduce the virus into their midst.<\/p>\n A nursing home in Queens received two coronavirus patients who had been discharged from a hospital (but were still contagious and in need of care) \u2013 along with a box containing body bags, The New York Post\u00a0reported<\/a>. An executive at the facility told the Post it had been free of the coronavirus prior to accepting those two patients. The executive also said that along with the two patients arrived a shipment of personal protective equipment and the body bags.<\/p>\n \u201cMy colleague noticed that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. Curious as to what could possibly be making that particular box so much heavier than the rest, he opened it,\u201d the executive told the Post. \u201cThe first two coronavirus patients were accompanied by five body bags.\u201d<\/p>\n The Post reported that within days, \u201cthree of the bags were filled with the first of 30 residents who would die there.\u201d The nursing facility continued to receive shipments of five body bags per week since those first two patients arrived \u2013 and they have been needed.<\/p>\n \u201cCuomo has blood on his hands. He really does. There\u2019s no way to sugarcoat this,\u201d the nursing home executive told the outlet. \u201cWhy in the world would you be sending coronavirus patients to a nursing home, where the most vulnerable population to this disease resides?\u201d<\/p>\n The executive added that their facility has admitted 17 coronavirus-positive patients from nearby facilities and that\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0have done fairly well, while the patients who died were not tested or were waiting for test results.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rest of the people are dropping like flies \u2014 literally like flies \u2014 and most of them have been with us for years,\u201d the executive said.<\/p>\n The Post reported that \u201cCOVID-19 has killed at least 3,540 residents of New York\u2019s nursing homes and adult care facilities as of Wednesday, according to the most recent state Health Department data.\u201d<\/p>\n Further, the Queens nursing facility is not alone in having the coronavirus injected into their facility due to the mandate from Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s (D) administration.<\/p>\n A nursing facility in Manhattan confirmed the Queens executive\u2019s situation, saying they also receive weekly shipments of body bags and added that the state mandate included no warning or time to prepare for accepting coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n \u201cBy the time I even got to the work the next day, I had phone calls, emails from just about every hospital in the area,\u201d an administrator told the Post. The administrator added that previously, the facility required \u201ctwo negative test results before we\u2019d even consider taking someone into the building.\u201d<\/p>\n Cuomo\u2019s office told the Post that the claim the governor has \u201cblood on his hands\u201d was \u201cdisgusting\u201d and an attempt by nursing home administrators \u201cto deflect from their failures.\u201d Cuomo had previously said facilities that couldn\u2019t care for COVID-19 patients were supposed to transfer them elsewhere and that they could ask the state Health Department for help with the transfer, but the March 25 mandate does not include instructions on how to do so.<\/p>\n Cuomo suggested at a coronavirus briefing in Albany that the nursing homes weren\u2019t transferring patients because they\u2019d lose money.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the regulation is common sense: If you can\u2019t provide adequate care, you can\u2019t have the patient in your facility and that\u2019s your basic fiduciary obligation \u2014 I would say, ethical obligation \u2014 and it\u2019s also your legal obligation,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, when a person gets transferred, they lose a patient, they lose that revenue, I understand, but the relationship is, the contract is, \u2018You have this resident, you get paid, you must provide adequate care.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: New York Required Nursing Homes To Admit \u2018Medically Stable\u2019 Coronavirus Patients. The Results Were Deadly. | The Daily Wire On March 25, New York\u2019s Health Department issued a mandate that state nursing homes could not refuse COVID-19-positive patients who were \u201cmedically stable,\u201d meaning facilities that housed the most vulnerable populations were forced to introduce … Continue reading New York Required Nursing Homes To Admit \u2018Medically Stable\u2019 Coronavirus Patients. The Results Were Deadly. | The Daily Wire<\/span> <\/div>\n