Andrew Cuomo s Nursing Home Shield Means They Got Away with Killing Our Mom
By Joel Warner
On 3/3/21 at 9:04 AM EST
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at a news conference on September 08, 2020 in New York City. Nursing homes owned by private equity are associated with lower staffing, fewer ventilators and less PPE: all factors in the COVID-19 death toll for elderly residents.
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For Vivian Rivera-Zayas and her family, the troubles began in January 2020 after her 78-year-old mother Ana Martinez experienced complications from knee-replacement surgery and doctors sent her to Our Lady of Consolation, a nursing home in West Islip, New York, for a few weeks of therapy.