CELJ in the News
August 5, 2020: Spectrum News, “Here’s what lawmakers can do to protect nursing home patients”
July 31, 2020: WBFO, “Lack of planning, or overly strict rules? Fewer than 1 in 5 NY nursing homes are open to visitors”
July 17, 2020: Buffalo News, “5,000 nursing home investigations delayed, thanks to Covid-19”
July 10, 2020: Niagara Frontier Publications, “Elder Law Day 2020: Summer webinar series to begin July 15”
July 4, 2020: The Seattle Times, “Stimulus money could pose dilemmas in nursing homes”
June 9, 2020: Niagara Frontier Publications, “Virtual activities planned for World Elder Abuse Awareness”
June 3, 2020: KenTon Bee, “Spindle: Remote counsel”
June 1, 2020: Buffalo News, “Cuomo administration won’t say when nursing home visits will resume”
May 30, 2020: Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, “Free legal assistance during the pandemic”
May 30, 2020: Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, “Community Response Fund Distributes $1 million in New York”
May 28, 2020: Food and Water Watch, “New York Legislature Bans Water Shutoffs during COVID-19”
May 26, 2020: Clarence Bee, “Spindle: Kinship – Special Education Advocacy”
May 26, 2020: Buffalo News, “Covid-19 brutal on long-term care facilities; nationwide, it’s worse”
May 24, 2020: Buffalo News, “Even before Covid-19, infection control was an issue at area nursing homes”
May 23, 2020: Buffalo News, “Civil legal services are essential to Covid recovery”
May 20, 2020: Courthouse News, “Drop in vaccinations raises alarm in virus-consumed NYC”
May 17, 2020: Riverdale Press, “Nursing homes: Numbers don’t tell the whole story”
May 13, 2020: Spectrum News, “WNY Elder Law Advocate on New Nursing Home Rules”
May 12, 2020: Cheddar TV, “Helping Residents and Workers at Nursing Homes Protect Themselves Against Coronavirus”
May 7, 2020: Buffalo News, “New York doesn’t count nursing home workers infected by Covid-19”
May 6, 2020: WBFO, “WNY has at least 150 deaths across 24 facilities, but death toll may be even higher”
May 6, 2020: WBEN, “Is vaccine needed for nursing homes to reopen?”
May 6, 2020: WBEN, “Attorney Lindsay Heckler of Center for Elder Law & Justice on reopening of nursing homes”
May 4, 2020: USA Today, “‘It makes no sense:’ Feds consider relaxing infection control in US nursing homes”
May 4, 2020: The Hill, “Fed rule would roll back infection control requirements at nursing homes”
May 4, 2020: The Daily Beast, “Feds mull rolling back infection control requirements at nursing homes”
May 4, 2020: Raw Story Investigates, “Federal government wants to roll back infection control requirements in nursing homes as coronavirus rages: report”
April 24, 2020: Buffalo News, “Legal help for all ages available from elder law center”
April 19, 2020: Buffalo News, “At nursing homes, covid-19 deaths but little public data”
April 17, 2020: WKBW, “Son says he wasn’t notified of mother’s death”
April 17, 2020: Courthouse News, “Cuomo rips into Trump: pass bucks, not the buck”
April 15, 2020: “Poloncarz: Nursing home residents account for closer to one third of Erie County’s COVID-19 deaths”
*List does not include items prior to April 15.
