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Anonymous ID: 2f0163 May 19, 2020, 9:02 p.m. No.9247697   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Gruesome Newsom Slashes $80 Million from Veterans Nursing Home

 

California Governor Gavin Newsom is planning on shutting down a veterans nursing home and giving that money – about $80 million – which would normally be allocated to it to people who aren’t even citizens. Newsom’s plan has been to give cash payments from money to illegals who weren’t eligible to receive any money from the coronavirus stimulus packages (CARES Act).

 

Fortunately, conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch requested a temporary restraining order to stop Newsom from taking hard-earned American money from the veterans who fought for our country and giving it to people who don’t even respect us or our laws.

 

“It is astonishing that a court would allow a public official to ignore the law and spend tax money with no legal authority. Simply put, as the court seems to acknowledge, the governor has no independent legal authority to spend state taxpayer money for cash payments to illegal aliens. We will appeal the court’s manifest error,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said.

 

Released on Thursday, Newsom’s revised budget proposed to “initiate the closure” of the Veterans Home of California-Barstow and a one-year delay for realignment at VHC-Chula Vista and Yountville. If approved, the changes would net state General Fund savings in Fiscal Year 2020-21 of $2.6 million, according to the revised budget. Long-term savings that would result from the Barstow facility’s closure are expected to be $14 million annually.

 

In total, the governor’s revisions would slash $6.1 billion from the state’s budget. The cuts are part of a plan to cover a $54.3 billion budget deficit caused by plummeting state revenues after a mandatory, statewide stay-at-home order forced most businesses to close and put more than 4.7 million people out of work.

Overall, the $203 billion spending plan is about 5% lower than what lawmakers approved last year.

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City officials in Barstow, meanwhile, aren’t ready to give up the facility that was founded in 1996 as the second home for veterans in California and, at the time, the first built in more than 100 years.

“The City of Barstow will write a letter to Gov. Newsom pointing out the necessity of the Barstow Veterans Home,” Barstow Mayor Julie Hackbarth-McIntyre told the Daily Press. “We’ll also encourage our surrounding cities, the County of San Bernardino and local citizens to do the same.”

 

But a Department of Veterans Affairs letter sent to the “Barstow Veterans Home Family” on Thursday discusses the closure as if it were a foregone conclusion. In the letter, which was obtained by the Daily Press, CalVet Secretary Vito Imbasciani said, “While this closure will be difficult for all of us, it is not entirely unexpected.”

 

“The Veterans Home of California Master Plan 2020 detailed that Barstow does not meet the criteria for an ideal veterans home location,” Imbasciani wrote. “The area does not have a large veteran population and the Home routinely has critical vacancies; the home is 90 minutes away from the nearest VA medical center; and among other issues, the lack of local nursing programs or a sizeable workforce makes it difficult to recruit for many positions.”

 

https://freedomheadlines.com/freedom-wire/gruesome-newsom-slashes-80-million-from-veterans-nursing-home-what-he-does-with-the-money-will-have-you-livid/

Anonymous ID: 2f0163 May 19, 2020, 9:37 p.m. No.9247933   🗄️.is 🔗kun

New York Health Dept Admits Concealing Nursing Home Deaths After Andrew Cuomo Faced Criticism

Peter Hasson May 19, 2020 | 11:53AM Albany, New York

 

The New York State Department of Health’s quiet switch to a reporting method that undercounts deaths of nursing home and other long-term care facility residents followed the administration facing criticism over skyrocketing deaths in such facilities.

New York knowingly omitted an unknown number of coronavirus deaths in recent reports regarding residents of nursing home and adult care facilities as a result of a quiet rule change, the agency acknowledged to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

 

The state changed the rules for counting nursing home deaths between April 28 and May 3, after several days of scrutiny of a health department order requiring nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to admit or re-admit positive coronavirus patients.

 

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked on April 20 what the state policy was for readmitting nursing home patients who tested positive for COVID-19. “That’s a good question, I don’t know,” the governor said. The question came nearly four weeks after the Cuomo administration ordered nursing homes and other long-term facilities to accept positive COVID-19 patients on March 25.

 

On April 21, the day after Cuomo admitted on live television that he didn’t know what his own policy was, New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin excoriated the governor’s handling of the nursing home issue. Goodwin wrote that “it was well known that the elderly were easy targets for the coronavirus before New York adopted its Health Department directive on March 25 requiring nursing homes to accept those with the disease.”

 

The next day, April 22, two state lawmakers, a Republican and a Democrat, demanded Cuomo nix the requirement that nursing homes accept positive coronavirus patients. That order, which Cuomo waited roughly six weeks to reverse, has been blamed for the decimation of nursing homes across New York.

“We know that coronavirus spreads like wildfire among the most vulnerable and it is nonsensical to import cases of COVID to a place where community spread could lead to grave consequences for residents,” Republican state Sen. Joseph A. Griffo said at the time. He begged Cuomo to “put an end to this dangerous and potentially deadly practice.”

 

Democratic Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon called it “unconscionable that the State continues to put [nursing home residents’] lives at risk by continuing this ill-advised practice.”

“Governor Cuomo must act immediately to put an end to this,” she said.

 

On April 23, Cuomo was asked about the policy and insisted that care facilities “don’t have a right to object” to the requirement that they receive positive coronavirus patients. “That is the rule and that is the regulation and they have to comply with that,” he said.

That same day, unnamed administrators in New York nursing homes told the Post that body bags were sent to them along with the nursing home patients it was forced to accept.

 

On April 28, the Post’s editorial board slammed Cuomo for refusing “to face facts” on the “horrors” taking place at nursing homes across the state. The governor was “refusing to admit his team has made a mistake in forcing nursing homes to take in patients infected with the deadly coronavirus,” the op-ed charged.

 

Before Cuomo reversed the much-maligned order on May 11, his administration began knowingly undercounting the nursing home death toll as a result of a quiet rule change.

 

Until at least April 28, the health department was disclosing coronavirus deaths of all nursing home and adult care facility residents, regardless of whether the patient died at their long-term care facility or at a hospital. By May 3, the department had made a subtle change to its disclosures, according to web archives.

 

The agency now only discloses coronavirus deaths of long-term care patients who died while physically present at their facility. Put differently: A nursing home resident, who becomes sick at their nursing home and then dies an hour after arriving at a hospital, isn’t counted in New York’s tally of nursing home deaths. The end result is a sharp reduction in the official number of deaths at many such facilities. New York is the only state with a major outbreak in nursing homes to report those fatalities that way. The state health department did not return a request for comment for this story.

 

https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/19/new-york-health-dept-admits-concealing-nursing-home-deaths-after-andrew-cuomo-faced-criticism/

Anonymous ID: 2f0163 May 19, 2020, 11:03 p.m. No.9248378   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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considering they ALL lie when it comes to themselves-she wrote the email to cover her ass. they won't go down if they can throw somebody else under the bus