UPDATE: State-run veterans homes in Paramus and Menlo Park violated the civil rights of their residents during the COVID pandemic and must correct policies and procedures going forward, federal authorities said Thursday.COVID killed more t…
By SUSAN K. LIVIO | nj.com | Published: April 23, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. ISELIN, N.J. (Tribune News Service) Thanks to a new law requiring nursing homes to increase staffing levels, 78 nurses, aides and other employees will be hired at the three state-run veterans homes, where residents and families say short-staffing contributed to dire conditions and high death counts throughout the pandemic. Interim Adjutant General and Col. Lisa J. Hou announced the new hires at a budget hearing this week, describing it as part of a plan “to enhance current programs or initiate new improvements.not just for FY2022 but looking forward to the years to come.”
More staff will be hired at N.J. veterans homes with more than 200 COVID deaths, but residents will have to wait
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Susan Ivanitski, center, holds a photo of her husband who died from COVID-19 while a resident at Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home. Ivanitski attended the Veterans Day Candlelight Vigil held in Edison. Family members who lost loved ones during the pandemic that decimated the veterans home in Menlo Park attended the service. Wednesday, November 11, 2020.
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Thanks to a new law requiring nursing homes to increase staffing levels, 78 nurses, aides and other employees will be hired at the three state-run veterans homes, where residents and families say short-staffing contributed to dire conditions and high death counts throughout the pandemic.