- By Office of Congressman Tom Reed
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Last Friday, Congressman Tom Reed and a group of state lawmakers issued a public letter demanding New York Governor Cuomo and the New York Department of Health respond to a series of inquiries regarding nursing home orders over the last three months.
In light of the death toll at nursing homes across New York and mounting concern over the Governor's ongoing failure to explain controversial and contradictory changes to the state’s nursing home policies, it is critical that the public hear why the state issued the policy guidance it has. The meeting request was made after repeated attempts to schedule discussions with the state were ignored.
The legislators posed 13 questions that they said they hoped would be answered at a virtual meeting.
The legislators who signed the letter were Reed; State Senators Fred Akshar, George Borrello, Rick Funke, Pamela Helming, Chris Jacobs, Tom O’Mara, Robert Ortt, and James Seward; and Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes and Assemblymen Christopher Friend, Andy Goodell, Joseph Giglio, Stephen Hawley, Brian Kolb, Brian Manktelow, Michael Norris, and Phil Palmesano.
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