20: The state Senate and Assembly send letters to Zucker with a list of follow-up questions regarding nursing home deaths.Īug. Zucker promises to get back to lawmakers with the information.Īug. “I want to know how many came from group homes." “I want to know how many came from nursing homes,” Assemblyman Tom Abinanti said. They also called for more information on how many people were discharged into nursing homes. 12: State lawmakers grill Health Commissioner Howard Zucker on nursing home deaths in New York and the total count of fatalities among residents and how many people died outside of the facilities. 3: The Empire Center, a right-leaning think tank in Albany, sends a Freedom of Information Law request seeking more specific information on the death toll of nursing home residents.Īug. July 7: State Senate Health Committee Chairman Gustavo Rivera says the DOH report raises more questions than answers and clarity is needed in an August hearing.Īug. July 6: The state Department of Health in a report blames asymptomatic staff and visitors for the spread of the virus in nursing homes, downplaying the impact of the March 25 guidance. New York also implements twice weekly COVID testing of nursing home staffers. May 10: The Cuomo administration partially rescinds the March 25 guidance for nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. The data is self-reported by the nursing homes and does not include the names of facilities with fewer than five deaths.Īpril 29: New York ends the policy of allowing asymptomatic, COVID-positive staffers to work in nursing homes with COVID patients. The order was preceded by a sharp increase in COVID hospitalizations across the state and fears the system would be quickly overrun with COVID patients.Īpril 17: New York begins to release some data on nursing home fatalities after repeated questions over the death toll in the facilities.
An association that represents medical directors warned against the move at the time, worried it would overwhelm nursing homes and long-term care facilities. The Cuomo administration has argued the order was based, in part, on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, which stipulated nursing homes can only take these patients if they are prepared to do so. March 25: The state Department of Health issued a guidance for nursing homes, requiring them to not turn away COVID-19 positive patients. March 13: The state limits visits to nursing homes to only those deemed medically necessary. "Senior citizen homes, nursing homes, congregant senior facilities. "That's my nightmare and that's where you're going to see the pain and the damage from this virus," he tells CNN. March 10: Cuomo, in an interview, says he's worried about the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
Here's a timeline for the last 11 months of the Cuomo administration's policies, the public requests for information and the fallout. The controversy surrounding the deaths of nursing home and long-term care facility residents stretches back nearly a year and is engulfing the first weeks of 2021 for Gov.
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