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Pandemic revealed N.J. does not know who owns for-profit nursing homes. New law would change that. Updated 2:47 PM; Today 11:15 AM Ambulance crews are parked outside Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Andover, N.J., on Thursday April 16, 2020. Police responding to an anonymous tip found more than a dozen bodies Sunday and Monday at the nursing home in northwestern New Jersey, according to news reports. The ownership has since changed hands and the facilities renamed Limecrest Subacute and Rehabilitation Center and Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) APAP Facebook Share Nursing home operators must reveal more information about their finances and their ownership and also pass a review evaluating their track record on safety and quality before state regulators will allow properties to be sold, under a new law Gov. Phil Murphy signed late Wednesday. ....
During a tense hearing, N.J.’s top health official defends state’s response to nursing home crisis Updated Apr 21, 2021; Posted Apr 21, 2021 Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, top right, described to the Assembly Budget Committee Wednesday how state and local public health officials fought to stem the spread of the coronavirus inside long-term care facilities. Facebook Share State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli on Wednesday defended her office’s response to the pandemic and the “devastating” toll it took on residents in long-term care facilities, noting the department has issued $2.2 million in fines against 79 operators for more than 600 violations. Persichilli did not identify the facilities or describe the infractions uncovered by surveyors, who she said conducted more than 1,000 infection control inspections and more than 520 inspections in the last 13 months. She used these and other statistics in a presentation before the stat ....
N.J. nursing home deaths drop 64% as vaccinations put major dent in COVID-19 cases Updated Mar 05, 2021; COVID-19 deaths fell sharply in New Jersey’s nursing homes in February as the coronavirus’ second wave ebbed and vaccinations became more widespread. Long-term care facilities recorded at least 147 deaths last month, a 64% drop from January and the first time they declined month-to-month since the summer, according to an NJ Advance Media analysis of state data. That comes as nursing homes, assisted living centers and other senior facilities were given priority when vaccinations launched in late December, with the state’s most vulnerable seniors and the workers who care for them among the first given shots. With those clinics nearly completed, about 80% of long-term care residents and nearly 50% of staff have now been inoculated, the Health Care Association of New Jersey estimates. ....