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Ron T. Kim Profile picture
@rontkim
Feb 4, 2021 • 26 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
🧵on nursing home scandal:

On April 14 2020, Berna Lee contacted my office, fearing that her mother, residing in a nursing home in my district, had been negligently exposed to COVID. Berna had been stonewalled.

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Desperate for answers, Berna and I went to the nursing home together where I learned the facility was understaffed, short of PPE, overwhelmed and severely under prepared following Gov Cuomo's 3/25/20 directive to send COVID positives to nursing homes.

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As my office looked into the matter further, more & more families reached out to us with their experiences. We found that the nursing homes and the Department of Health were purposely covering up the true number of residents dying from COVID @nytimes

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By end of April 2020, we knew the state Dept of Health had no plan to support the under-staffed and under-resourced nursing homes. Our community and electeds scrambled to donate/source PPEs and recruit volunteers.

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On April 20, 2020, Governor Cuomo was finally asked about his deadly March 25, 2020 executive order to send COVID positives to nursing homes. He pretended to not know about it. @bern_hogan @nypost

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During this time, my uncle passed away at a Flushing facility from presumed COVID. He was a US Army Captain who died afraid & alone in a nursing home. My pain is shared by many New Yorkers like @JaniceDean who vow to hold Gov Cuomo accountable.

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On May 13, 2020, we found out that Gov Cuomo snuck in a last minute provision in the state’s budget (which I voted against) to grant legal immunity to nursing homes, hospitals, and their executive officers. I believe this lead to even more deaths.

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On May 15, 2020, I introduced a bill to fully repeal the corporate legal shield for nursing homes and issued a series of reports. When it's a choice between saving lives and saving profits, NH corporations were given legal immunity to choose profits.

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On May 26, 2020, @davidsirota broke the first major investigative report on how special interest groups drove Gov Cuomo to push for corporate legal immunity & how Mitch McConnell pushed for same corporate shield in Washington.

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On July 20, 2020, the state legislature passed my bill that prospectively repealed portions of the legal immunity for nursing homes and it was signed into law. @WSJ

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On the Assembly floor, as I passed my partial repealer of the legal immunity for nursing homes, I vowed to not rest until I deliver retroactive justice for all the families who unjustly lost their loved ones in NHs:

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On August 12, 2020, we had our first nursing home and long-term facility oversight hearing. Here is @SenatorBiaggi and I grilling the main lobbyist on how they pushed for legal immunity in Albany and Washington:

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On August 21, 2020, @Biaggi4NY and I penned an oped calling for full funding of home care services to counter the poor conditions and management of nursing homes. @CaringMajority

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On January 20, 2021, I sent a nonpartisan request with @Byrne4NY to President @JoeBiden asking him to make sure we receive full data and facts behind New York’s nursing home fatalities: 

nypost.com/2021/01/20/ny-…

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On January 28, 2021, @NewYorkStateAG issued her 77-pg report that validated everything about our findings on nursing homes & the for-profit motives that destroyed thousands of families. When I received the call from the AG office, my eyes teared up.

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The AG’s report verified that Gov Cuomo and his administration tired to cover up the nursing home deaths by not counting up to 50% of the fatalities @propublica

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The AG’s report also slams Governor Cuomo for protecting business interests (legal shield) over people’s lives in the middle of a pandemic @NBCNewYork

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Following the AG’s report, the legislature is moving to pass safe staffing requirements in nursing homes and discussing a number of other measures:

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I’m proposing a victims comp fund for families who lost their loved ones in nursing homes & survivors who are dealing with health issues. It is the right thing to do because govt policies directly lead to thousands of New Yorkers' pain & suffering.

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Policies must center solutions around people, not the special interest groups and corporations that are in it for profits @QueensChronicle

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Governor Cuomo did not even blink when he retroactively took away patient rights by handing out legal shields to nursing home executives. In light of the AG’s report, it shouldn’t be that hard to restore their rights.

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This is about justice for older adults and our vulnerable populations. From veterans being forced to take experimental drugs at state nursing homes and grieving families left without recourse, we must own up to our mistakes and move forward.

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We must fully repeal @NYGovCuomo's immunity law that shields nursing home executives from legal consequences.

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On April 14, 2020, I received this email from Berna and saw firsthand how this nursing home mistreated her and her mother. Soon, I realized, these facilities acted with impunity because of Cuomo's broad legal immunity.

That ends now: nydailynews.com/news/politics/…

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On April 6, 2021, we successfully restored the rights of nursing home residents and hospital patients.

Now, we must hold Andrew Cuomo accountable for his abuse of power and deadly decisions that led to countless deaths.

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Our fight to hold Cuomo accountable for his deadly decisions to protect nursing home businesses over people’s lives continues ...

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In functioning democracies worldwide, they look down on "outsourcing" public services like home care work to nonprofits. Here in Flushing & rest of America, we've normalized proxy governments and even given them nonprofit immunity, allowing them to steal wages.

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When confronting semi-govt nonprofits like CPC that are contracted to administer $200million of home care services about wage theft, their response is that if they pay all the back wages, they will go bankrupt.

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Meanwhile, most political leaders walk on eggshells around nonprofit service providers (including @DSAForTheMany), touting funding for them as big wins to the electorate ... even when they are actively stealing wages from our constituents.

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Doing some deeper dives into CPC’s $200million homecare business and, it’s glaringly obvious CPC is not compliant in paying workers required pay for 24 hr shifts & overtime.

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CPC hyper-scaled their home care business into a $200 million mega-business without any desire to protect their workers’ rights.

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Smaller-sized & non-monopolistic nonprofit homecare providers are able to provide supplemental wages to pay the state’s required overtime wages bc they are truly mission driven and use their 501c3 status to raise $$ for workers

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