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Skilled nursing facilities in New York and other states are being granted immunity for care they provide during the COVID-19 crisis. Advocates fear that such blanket protection will make it easier for facilities to cover up negligence and the abuse of elderly patients in nursing homes.

Governor Cuomo’s new executive order requiring staff testing and reporting at nursing homes during this pandemic does nothing to keep elderly residents from risk, according to John Dalli, Esq., of nursing home abuse law firm, Dalli & Marino, LLP, in a May 13 feature in The New York Post.

Families with loved ones in nursing homes have many questions about letting them remain in those facilities during the COVID-19 crisis. NEWSDAY’s Robert Brodsky has researched answers to some of these difficult questions, including: How can you determine if your…

John Dalli, a partner in elder abuse law firm Dalli & Marino LLP, appeared on FOX NEWS’ “The Story with Martha MacCallum” on May 5 to discuss COVID-19’s devastating impact on nursing homes as well as Governor Cuomo’s recent “puzzling”…

Early in his COVID-19 press briefing today, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared, “Protecting nursing homes residents is our top priority” before outlining additional rules that skilled nursing facilities must follow during this pandemic which has claimed the lives of over 3,500…

The federal government will now require all U.S. nursing homes to disclose to residents and their families if staff or any other residents have contracted the coronavirus according to NPR. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) says notification…