U.S. Investigating Veterans Nursing Homes in New Jersey for Possibly Understating Covid Deaths
In an earlier investigation, The Wall Street Journal showed one veterans home
By Christopher Weaver
Updated Oct. 28, 2020 6:25 pm ET
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil-rights investigation into New Jersey veterans homes’ handling of deadly coronavirus outbreaks earlier this year, according to a letter from the department to the state’s governor, Phil Murphy.
In an investigation published Oct. 5, The Wall Street Journal showed one of the veterans homes, the Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home, in Edison, N.J., botched its response to an April outbreak, waiting more than a week to alert families once the virus was in the building, discouraging…
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