Joe Biden nominates Indian-American Rupa Ranga Puttagunta as judge of DC District Court indiatvnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatvnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A New York state Democratic leader said that after a conversation with a Republican colleague he may open an investigation into a still-in-effect directive from Gov. Andrew Cuomo that requires group homes for the developmentally disabled to accept residents who have tested positive for coronavirus but are "medically stable."
16 Mar 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) administration could face another investigation as state lawmakers consider probing an in-tact April directive requiring group homes for the disabled to accept recovering coronavirus patients.
The April 10 directive states, “No individual shall be denied re-admission or admission to a Certified Residential Facility based solely on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”
It reads in part:
Any denial of admission or re-admission must be based on the residential provider’s inability to provide the level of care required by the prospective individual, pursuant to the hospital’s discharge instructions, and based on the residential provider’s current certification.
ALBANY – With new questions emerging about the role that Governor Cuomo’s coronavirus book deal may have played in the administration’s nursing home data cover-up and remaining questions about the state’s mismanaged nursing home COVID response, Aging Committee Ranking Member Sue Serino and Committee Member George Borrello today advanced motions to launch bipartisan investigations into the issues.
Both motions were rejected by Senate Aging Committee Chair Rachel May who ruled them “out of order,” despite compliance with all procedural protocols by both Serino and Borrello.
Specifically, Serino’s motion would have compelled NYS Health Commissioner Howard A. Zucker to appear before the Aging Committee to give testimony and provide all written and electronic books and records related to COVID-19 in nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities and the fatalities related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in those facilities since the start of the pandemic in Marc
AGING COMMITTEE CHAIR REJECTS MOTIONS TO INVESTIGATE NURSING HOME COVERUP AND CONNECTIONS TO CUOMO BOOK DEAL nysenate.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nysenate.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.