arrow Families of COVID-19 victims who passed away in New York nursing homes demand Governor Andrew Cuomo apologize for his response to clusters in nursing home during pandemic. October 2020. Yuki Iwamura/AP/Shutterstock
Vulnerable nursing home residents are being moved between facilities with little notice to families or elected officials, prompting concerns about the Cuomo administration s new strategy to create COVID-only establishments. While state officials say the policy is needed to keep hospital beds open for acute-care patients, critics told Gothamist/WNYC the lack of transparency fits a pattern, one that prioritizes nursing homes over patients and their families.
Advocates and elected officials pointed out that several facilities taking in COVID-positive patients discharged from hospitals have poor ratings, including one nursing home that has spent more than five years on a federal watch list for some of the worst nursing homes in the country.
During the final quarter of 2019, The Hanover’s net income was $109.8 million. In a year marked by a global pandemic and the related economic recession, very active weather and social unrest, we delivered outstanding results, rising to the occasion, posting record operating earnings and generating an operating return on equity of 16.2% in the fourth quarter and 13.1% for the full year, said John Roche, president and CEO at The Hanover, in a press release.
Notably, despite the remarkable fourth quarter, The Hanover’s profits were down overall for 2020, with the company reporting $358.7 million in net income compared to $425.1 million in 2019, a difference of 16%.
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Dr. Jeffrey Farber, of the New Jewish Home in Manhattan, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 21. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK CITY New York City will close 2020 having received more than 368,000 doses of a vaccine that didn t exist when the year began.
The game-changing COVID-19 vaccine developed separately by Pfizer and Moderna continues to roll into the city this week. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday presented data showing by the week s end which more or less coincides with the new year that the city will have received about 368,650 doses. They will not have been necessarily administered but they will have been delivered, he said.
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