#Congress demands documents, briefing on Cuomo’s deadly nursing-home order
“#Congress demands documents, briefing on Cuomo’s deadly nursing-home order”
June 16, 2020 | 5:15pm | Updated June 16, 2020 | 5:24pm
The Sapphire Center nursing home in Flushing, New York.
REUTERS
In a letter to Cuomo, all five GOP members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said they wanted “information, at a granular level” that will reveal “what science or guidance you used to make this lethal decision.”
“This decision likely contributed to the thousands of elderly deaths in New York State,” the letter said.
The House members, led by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), are seeking six categories of documents and information, including the daily number of coronavirus deaths of a “registered nursing home patient at a hospital.”
The state Department of Health stopped listing that figure on its website in early May.
The House members also want a “staff-level briefing” by Thursday.
Similar letters were also sent to the governors of Michigan, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, who — like Cuomo — are Democrats.
Democratic members of the coronavirus subcommittee declined to sign the letters, Scalise said on his website.
Cuomo last month reversed the DOH’s March 25 directive amid growing outrage and bipartisan calls for independent investigations of his nursing home policies.
He later tried repeatedly to blame the Trump administration, saying, “Don’t criticize the state for following the president’s policies” while pointing to CDC guidelines.
In their letter, the House members cited guidance issued March 13 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that said “nursing homes should admit any individual that they would normally admit to their facility.”
They also noted remarks by CMS Administrator Seema Verma, who on May 27 told Fox News Radio, “Under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients’ needs.”
In a prepared statement, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi called the GOP lawmakers “craven political hacks” who were “apparently seeking some sort of election year boost and to misdirect attention away from the oversight committee’s investigation into the federal pandemic response.”
“Nothing can cover for the fact that the federal government failed, specific federal guidelines were issued and followed by more than a dozen states, and that present state law…states that a nursing home shall accept and retain only those residents for whom it can provide adequate care — specifically outlawing nursing homes from accepting patients they cannot care for,” he added.
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