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Two Local Nursing Homes Have Reported More Than 20 Covid-19 Deaths Each

April 18, 2020 | 9:00 AM
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New Jewish Home.

Nursing homes have been hit hard by Covid-19, and two on the Upper West Side made a state list of the homes hit hardest by the disease.

New Jewish Home at 120 West 106th Street recorded 21 deaths, according to a new state list of deaths that occurred inside nursing homes. The Riverside, at 150 Riverside Drive between 87th and 88th Streets, recorded 22 deaths.

Nursing homes have been the site of some of the most devastating Covid outbreaks across the city — one in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn recorded 55 deaths.

Some are criticizing the state data for being incomplete and not recording the true toll to nursing home residents, because it doesn’t include residents who died in hospitals.

State cuts to Medicaid have put some nursing homes in precarious financial shape, and sometimes low on staff, just as the disease hit the state. New Jewish Home, which has 514 beds, had been asking for people to donate personal protective equipment — and even basic supplies like hand soap — for its staff last month.

After reading our article about the supply shortage, Godwyn Morris at local business Skill Mill (949 Amsterdam Avenue) started making face shields with the company’s 3D printing and laser cutting equipment. “While our regular work has disappeared we are perfectly equipped to produce this much needed equipment,” she told us.

Skill Mill partnered with the Rodeph Sholom school, which donated 3D printers, and Tikkun Olam Makers, a global non-profit that has a web platform with instructions to make face masks and other equipment.

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Gladys
Gladys
3 years ago

How many staff members were infected?

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Dorrie
Dorrie
3 years ago

Walked by the New Jewish home on Friday morning and saw a truck load of oxygen tanks being unloaded under police guard. On Tuesday 3 ambulances and a fire truck took people to the hospital. Clearly a lot of people are infected in the New Jewish home and the administrators are not owning up to how bad the outbreak is. Are the seniors getting adequate care?

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Madd Donna
Madd Donna
3 years ago
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Of course not!! My mother was sent to New Jewish Home last summer and died within 2 months. Staff, doctors and nurses lie, mix up patients and the neglect and buffoonery is beyond comprehension. Horrible institution and surprised there were only 20 deaths.

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UWSider
UWSider
3 years ago

I happened to have been walking on the sidewalk earlier this week JUST when someone deceased was being taken away through the Riverside’s side service door. It was shocking to me, as the man doing the job looked like he was taking trash out. It took me a few seconds to realize the situation, and I had to cross the street to avoid crashing into the stretcher. It may not have been a COVID related death, as the worker was not wearing a mask. At this point, however, it’s hard to assume otherwise.

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Gretchen
Gretchen
3 years ago

Makes me wonder if the Amsterdam House, a rehab and nursing home on Amsterdam Ave. & 112th St., has fully reported any Covid fatalities, and if so, how many. It’s a very large facility right near the Lt. Luke’s, Mt. Sinai hospital.

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donald a beck
donald a beck
3 years ago

In our facility we have implemented live in care providers. Providers who live in the facility with the residents. This eliminates transmission of coronavirus from the outside community to our facility. We have employees willing to provide this level of protection to their clients. God bless them they are saving life’s. Six weeks in and all is well.

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Roberta
Roberta
3 years ago
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What facility are you?

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MF
MF
3 years ago
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This is the only way to insure safety inside these institutions. I just wonder what staff who have children do.

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Spence Halperin
Spence Halperin
3 years ago

The New Jewish Home is a hellhole at the best of times. Drop in at night to see your lived one. Hideous. I know.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago

I live on the UWS but work in a nursing home in Queens and have friends in nursing homes in Manhattan and the Bronx. These facilities were woefully unprepared for this outbreak, both in terms of adequate PPE and appropriate infection control protocols. The other huge problem is that the Department of Health has instructed nursing homes for the last few weeks to stop testing for COVID-19 and to simply assume everyone in the facility has the virus. So when residents pass away they aren’t counted in the state totals because they never officially tested positive.

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DF
DF
3 years ago

Thank you SKill Mill/Rodeph Sholom/Tikkun Olam Makers

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Jane
Jane
3 years ago

How great, Godwyn. Face shields are needed and you are making them and providing them to heroic health care workers.How resourceful to team up to get the 3D printers from the Rodelph Sholom school. Thank you, neighbor.

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John Ethan
John Ethan
3 years ago

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Suzy
Suzy
3 years ago

It’s worth remembering that the residents of The New Jewish home on 106 St would have been in a modern facility on 97 St — with self contained units featuring dedicated staff, discrete kitchen facilities and single rooms and bathrooms. But community groups decided that they needed the weed grown former parking lot more than they needed a new nursing home. So please, stop before you criticize.

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Lynn
Lynn
3 years ago

I love how people who have no information pass judgement. The country was not ready for this and still having trouble with getting proper testing etc. Do not point fingers. These facilities have had a very difficult time. How about some compassion instead of bashing.

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LOIS LAZARUS-LOCKER
LOIS LAZARUS-LOCKER
3 years ago

THIS IS TRAGIC… RIVERSIDE HAS A GREAT REHAB AND WONDERFUL STAFF…. I HAD TWO TOURS OF REB THERE . ALSO AT NEW JEWISH –
I HOPE JAKE ALLISON JOHNATHON IVAN PP-IA MARIE EVERYONE AT RIOVERSIDE KITCHEN DIET OFFICE 10 FLOOR GRACE ETC… STAY WELLL.. DR LOIS LAZARUS LOCKER .

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