Claim: “Does the #DemConvention know @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?”
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: New York Cancer Hospital
text: Towers Nursing Home. The nursing home later became infamous for its negligence and lack of standards. The elderly patients testified to "atrocious conditions," including inadequate heat, pest infestations, physical abuse and negligence. The patients weren't the only ones being neglected either. The old facilities were unkempt, filthy, and a "pungent odor" filled the air. The once immaculate building, became a sad derelict place. A state and federal investigation ensued, following a probe into allegations of Medicaid and Tax fraud that ultimately caused the home to close its doors in 1974. The former New York Cancer Hospital was left in such

title: Joel Landau
text: After attempting to find suitable care for his grandfather, he stated in an interview that he noticed local nursing homes lacked resources to provide quality care. Following this experience, Landau and The Allure Group purchased the bankrupt Victory Memorial Hospital in 2010, and developed the site into what is now known as the Hamilton Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. This early success led Landau to purchase more New York City-based nursing homes and begin to improve the physical plants, staffing and overall state of these facilities. He subsequently purchased others including two Brooklyn-based nursing homes in 2011 and 2012. Landau

title: Safe Care Campaign
text: by Victoria and Armando Nahum after three members of their family acquired nosocomial infections in hospitals in three different states in the timespan of a year, ultimately resulting in the death of their son, Joshua. Safe Care Campaign The Safe Care Campaign is an Atlanta, Georgia (United States) based corporation seeking to help eradicate hospital acquired infections. Its goal is to instigate a national change in ideology and practices within the health care environment in regard to hand hygiene. The organization compiles, develops, distributes and promotes educational resource material and targeted media campaigns to inform and assist patients and medical

title: Operation Sea-Spray
text: but said any link to their experiments was totally coincidental. The Army pointed out that no other hospitals reported similar outbreaks and all 11 victims had urinary-tract infections following medical procedures, suggesting that the source of their infections lay inside the hospital. In 1981 Nevin's surviving family members filed suit against the federal government, alleging negligence. "My grandfather wouldn't have died except for that, and it left my grandmother to go broke trying to pay his medical bills," says Mr. Nevin's grandson, Edward J. Nevin III, a San Francisco attorney who filed the case in U.S. District Court. The lower

title: Bernard Bergman
text: served as editor and publisher of the Yiddish-language daily "The Jewish Morning Journal" and head of Hapoel HaMizrachi. He started to build his network of nursing homes in the 1960s, with the former New York Cancer Hospital on Central Park West at 106th Street was acquired in 1955 and operated by Bergman as the Towers Nursing Home. The home became the center of federal and state fraud charges. Claims were made that patients in the home were abused and neglected, with residents testifying that they had not been given adequate heat and had been subjected to physical abuse and pest

title: Rivington House
text: nursing home,” and “would consider converting the property into a luxury apartment building and forgo the nursing home renovation.”" The city of New York opened an investigation into what had gone wrong with their management of the situation. However, the probe found no illegal conduct. The city announced they could not sue The Allure Group, as legally they had not done anything wrong and determined instead that there was a need to revamp its own internal policies and procedures. Despite the controversy caused by the sale and removing the deed restriction from Rivington House, the state legislators decided to reject

title: Claire Fagin
text: who was a dermatologist in Queens. She elected to study nursing at Wagner College and earned a doctorate at New York University. Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "rooming in" for parents of hospitalized children. She continued her research in this area, which influenced the perception of parental visitation in hospitals. She served as Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1992, when she left to do geriatric nursing research as a Scholar in Residence at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. She was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at

title: Visiting Nurse Service of New York
text: Nurses, among many others. Current President and CEO of Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) is Marki Flannery. The company conducts research to increase the evidence base for health care at home, and established the VNSNY Center for Home Care Policy & Research in 1993. Its IT innovations have been the subject of research VNSNY acts as a liaison between patient and government bodies such as the state and federal legislatures, as well as regulatory bodies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the New York State Department of Health and the Department of Insurance. The

title: Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters
text: posting on the NRVS Facebook page by Dr. Rachel Heap went viral. It reads in part, "And what do you say when he gives influenza to his grandma? How do you explain she won't be coming home from hospital? Not ever.", and continues: "Do you tell them you didn't think these diseases were that serious? That you thought that your organic, home cooked food was enough to protect them? Do you say sorry?" The post drew worldwide attention from pro-vaccine groups, anti-vaccine groups and others. Heap was asked why she wrote that Facebook post in a 2018 interview on breakfast

title: I nuovi mostri
text: the thread of his phone voluntarily off the hook. A man, incited by the cruel lover, brings his elderly mother in a nursing home, trying to convince the woman to stay cheerful. But the mother is not happy, because she's aware that the life of the retired hospice is sad and devastating. The woman does not trust even the nurses, and tries to escape, but his son takes her up and forces her to enter the hospice. When the mother is taken away by the nurses, the son has a moment of repentance and cries to the nurses to treat

title: NYC Health + Hospitals
text: alleged that patients at the Kings County Hospital "are subjected to overcrowded and squalid conditions often accompanied by physical abuse and unnecessary and punitive injections of mind-altering drugs." In December 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York began a separate investigation. In June 2008, the plaintiffs in the May 2007 lawsuit released a video of Esmin Green, a 49-year-old patient, dying on the floor of a waiting room in King County Hospital after waiting to be seen by at the psychiatric emergency department for more than 24 hours. Shortly

title: Joel Landau
text: and The Allure Group also purchased The Cabs Nursing Home in Brooklyn, New York in early 2015. The four-story, 111-room facility sold for $15.6 million. Later that year, Landau and The Allure Group purchased Rivington House, a non-performing and nearly vacant AIDS/HIV specialty nursing home located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The $28 million purchase featured in the New York City press after the deed restrictions were changed. Its restrictive deed prevented the property from being developed like many of the buildings in the same district, stating that the building had to be used for non-profit residential health

title: Julia Barnett Rice
text: were recruited, such as the “Surveyor of the Port of New York, the President of Columbia University, the Chancellor of the University of New York, a Congressman, the Commissioner of Health,” and many more. An employee at Bellevue Hospital discussed the impact that the tugboat horns had on his patients, and how “Patients imagine demons are after them. In many cases, the shock is proved to be fatal.” This statement got Julia’s campaign going, and influenced a few other hospitals in earshot of the tugboat noises to speak up as well. After gaining a fair amount of notice, Julia Barnett

title: Bernard Bergman
text: infestations. The site was closed in 1974 as a nursing home. A New York State Senate investigation in 1975 brought witnesses who testified of patients lapsing into comas due to untreated dehydration, bedsores caused by coarse sheets and failure to notify authorities of an epidemic of diarrhea. An unannounced inspection of a home found unsanitary conditions, including milk used a week past its expiration date and excrement on the floors in patient rooms. Bergman vigorously denied the charges, claiming that the homes he operated were well run. In 1976, Bergman was sentenced to serve four months in a Federal correction

title: Greenpoint Renaissance Enterprise Corporation
text: to 200 beds. GREC met this issue with demonstrations and protests, causing Mayor David Dinkins to issue a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that gave GREC control of the site and ordered the immediate reduction of the homeless population from 650 to 450 men. It was again agreed that the outpatient building and nurses’ residence building would be relinquished, with the main building being retained to accommodate 200 beds for permanent shelter. With New York City’s cooperation, the former outpatient building was acquired by the St. Nicks Alliance and developed as a community facility providing home healthcare, housing, and youth and

title: ACT UP
text: who both had "healthy genitals" the risk of HIV transmission was negligible, even if the male partner was infected. Women from ACT UP who had been having informal "dyke dinners" met with Dr. Gould in person, questioning him about several misleading facts (that penis to vagina transmission is impossible, for example) and questionable journalistic methods (no peer review, bibliographic information, failing to disclose that he was a psychiatrist and not a practitioner of internal medicine), and demanded a retraction and apology. When he refused, in the words of Maria Maggenti, they decided that they "had to shut down Cosmo." According

title: And in the End...
text: the girl finally awakens but just thrashes around and is sent for a new CT to diagnose possible brain damage. Dr. Julia Wise (Alexis Bledel), new to County General, treats a homosexual HIV-positive patient who has severe breathing difficulties. It is discovered he has terminal cancer. With the support of his partner, he decides not to seek treatment, as he has already outlived most of his friends who died at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. An elderly patient named Beverly (Jeanette Miller) is brought in by a fire engine with a broken wrist, and comments on

title: Snake Hill
text: from schizophrenia to syphilis, and according to a 2013 "Union City Reporter" article, many people were admitted to the hospital "who had no reason to be there: healthy residents who had been determined by their relatives to be a burden." Residents sometimes signed in their elderly relatives when they could no longer afford to take care of them. At the time, it was not difficult to sign in a patient, but harder for one to leave the hospital. According to Secaucus Town Historian Dan McDonough, "Anybody could sign somebody in. However, you would need three doctors to sign you out."

title: Marjory Warren
text: The following year she conducted an audit of the hundreds of patients in the wards, finding a cohort of delirious and demented patients who required beds with cot sides, severely incontinent patients, another cohort of were elderly and sick but eminently treatable, incontinent patients, and patients who were mobile throughout the day. During this time she developed a system of classification for these patients, including those who were suitable for rehabilitation and thus able to go home, and those who would require residential care (what we now refer to as nursing homes), and had particular success in rehabilitating stroke patients.

title: United Hospital Fund
text: insurance exchange in the state following the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Working with the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Fund has led and participated in numerous efforts focused on quality improvement and patient safety at New York hospitals. These initiatives have led to lower incidence of central-line associated bloodstream infections and cardiac arrest, as well as lower mortality rates from severe sepsis. The Fund's Aging in Place initiative, begun in 2000, explores ways to provide health care and social services to seniors in their homes and communities, particularly in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs). In 2008, the