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The scandal was made public on February 11, 2021, when the New York Post reported that Melissa DeRosa, a secretary and aide to Cuomo, privately apologized to lawmakers for the administration withholding the nursing-home death toll in fear then-President Donald Trump would "turn this into a giant political football".
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces rapidly growing scandals involving allegations he sexually harassed two ex-aides and downplayed nursing home COVID deaths.
[2] [3] It also prompted the State of Arizona to make drastic changes to the way their long-term care facilities are managed. [ 4 ] Other well-known pregnancies involving sexually abused vegetative and comatose female patients have also been reported in New York in 1996, Massachusetts in 1998, and Argentina in 2015.
Many news organizations and political pundits proposed that the allegations, combined with Cuomo's simultaneous scandal of allegedly covering up COVID-19 nursing home deaths, could severely diminish Cuomo's chances of re-election in the 2022 gubernatorial election.
The nursing home, which was previously home to 87 residents, has been repeatedly found in violation of health and safety standards, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
The nursing home is located in Oregon, a northwest Ohio city just outside of Toledo. Lucy Garcia, 72, was admitted to Arbors at Oregon on Jan. 25, 2023 for long term residential care after having ...
On January 28, an investigation conducted by state attorney general Letitia James concluded that the Cuomo administration undercounted COVID-19-related deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%. [124] It became known as the New York COVID-19 nursing home scandal, which drew huge criticism on alleged Governor Cuomo's cover-up nusing home deaths ...
Westbrook later merged the hospice he was managing into the for-profit national chain he had been building in other states. The company, Hospice Care, Inc., or HCI, began generating big profits. Soon after, it also attracted its first scandal.