adult care facilities Archives - Center for Elder Law & Justice

A.4416C (Gottfried) / S.3460A (Rivera) provides important consumer protections to residents and their families by deterring the worst abuses in Adult Care Facilities. The Center for Elder Law & Justice is urging our state legislators to support A.4416C / S.3460A in an effort to improve Adult Care Facilities, benefiting the lives of New Yorkers residing…

The Department of Health (DOH) announced on July 10 that that outside visitation and limited indoor visitation and activities can resume in nursing homes and adult care facilities so long as the facility meets specific benchmarks. We discuss what those benchmarks are and the limitations on visitation below. We encourage residents and families who have…

submitted by Lindsay Heckler, Esq. and Liam McMahon, Paralegal Call to action: use your voice to improve long-term care! There have been longstanding issues with transparency and communication on the guidance issued to nursing home and adult care facility providers by New York State and the New York State Department of Health. To assist the…

New York State recently released each county’s individual death statistics due to COVID-19 from nursing homes and adult care facilities. This information is accessible here: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf The Center for Elder Law & Justice is grateful to the Governor for taking this first step in keeping nursing home residents, their families, and the public informed. However,…