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.
Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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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.