The state of New Jersey, which was accused of gross negligence and incompetence over its handing of the COVID outbreak in the state-run veterans homes, has agreed to a pay nearly $53 million to the families of 119 residents whose deaths were attributed to the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic.
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Fight on N.J. nursing home crisis turns political: ‘If this was an animal shelter, there would be an uproar.’
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
Posted Mar 05, 2021
The Republican caucus decided to press ahead with its own hearings after being rebuffed on a special committee to examine New Jersey s nursing home crisis.Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media
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It’s not going to be a bipartisan effort.
The crisis in the state’s nursing homes is turning into a political issue, with the minority Republicans holding their own virtual hearings, months after the Democratic-controlled Legislature promised to hold a post-mortem on what happened.
A woman who worked at a Sussex County nursing home where authorities found bodies piled up in a makeshift morgue last year died from complications of COVID-19 last year because the home failed to provide proper protective gear, her family alleges in a lawsuit filed this week.
The home, Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation I and II in Andover Township, was criticized in a scathing federal report last year that determined lack of proper care has caused or was likely to cause serious injury or death to residents.” One of the state s largest nursing homes, with two facilities next to each other, it had beds for more than 700 patients.