As those critics now try to repeal the provision during this final week of Albany's legislative session, they assert that data prove such immunity is correlating to higher nursing home death rates during the pandemic - both in New York and in other states enacting similar immunity policies.
"The reason why neglect happens in nursing homes is executives make business decisions that result in the frontline workers not having the tools - in nursing homes, the manpower - to deliver the services those workers are trained to deliver," said plaintiffs' attorney Andrew G Finkelstein, a managing partner at Jacoby & Meyers.
"These executives choose how much staffing will be in a nursing home and they know the more staffing that they put in, the more safe the nursing home will be - but the less profits they will make," Finkelstein said.
Three of the hospital association's top officials separately gave more than $150,000 to Cuomo's campaign between 2015 and 2018.In all, during the governor's second term, Cuomo's campaign and his state party committee raked in more than $2.3m from hospital and nursing home industry donors and their lobbying firms, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in Politics.
Since receiving large hospital and nursing home campaign donations, Cuomo has supported other legislation backed by those industries.
In all, the report concludes: "77% of total deaths come from states that gave immunity to corporations who owned nursing homes and healthcare facilities; moreover, 76% of total nursing home deaths come from states that have legal immunity status for these facilities.
They could sue but now because of this immunity they cannotAs they push to expand immunity laws across the country, the hospital and nursing home industries have continued to cast their campaign as a necessary defense of medical workers.
"The reason why neglect happens in nursing homes is executives make business decisions that result in the frontline workers not having the tools - in nursing homes, the manpower - to deliver the services those workers are trained to deliver," said plaintiffs' attorney Andrew G Finkelstein, a managing partner at Jacoby & Meyers.
"These executives choose how much staffing will be in a nursing home and they know the more staffing that they put in, the more safe the nursing home will be - but the less profits they will make," Finkelstein said.
Three of the hospital association's top officials separately gave more than $150,000 to Cuomo's campaign between 2015 and 2018.In all, during the governor's second term, Cuomo's campaign and his state party committee raked in more than $2.3m from hospital and nursing home industry donors and their lobbying firms, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in Politics.
Since receiving large hospital and nursing home campaign donations, Cuomo has supported other legislation backed by those industries.
In all, the report concludes: "77% of total deaths come from states that gave immunity to corporations who owned nursing homes and healthcare facilities; moreover, 76% of total nursing home deaths come from states that have legal immunity status for these facilities.
They could sue but now because of this immunity they cannotAs they push to expand immunity laws across the country, the hospital and nursing home industries have continued to cast their campaign as a necessary defense of medical workers.
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