‘Let’s keep pounding this drum’: Republicans seek subpoena for NY’s nursing home policies
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
By Edward McKinley | Times Union, Albany
Albany, N.Y. — Republicans are continuing to press for subpoenas to be used to compel Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration to provide documents and testimony about its handling of coronavirus in nursing homes, including records documenting the decision-making that guided the treatment and protection of elderly residents and their caretakers.
The political pressure has intensified in the wake of a report last week from the state attorney general’s office that determined the health department had undercounted nursing home fatalities by roughly 50 percent at a time when criticism of the administration’s policies governing the facilities was mounting.