After Sandy, New York will give home to all senior citizen
A nursing home and assisted living facility under the supervision of state officials and advocacy group after The Associated Press announced that hundreds of elderly and disabled people forced to evacuate by Super storm Sandy were still sleeping on cots in tight and sometimes oppressive conditions almost two months later.
New York Attorney General sent two investigators to the Bishop Henry B. Hucles episcopal Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Brooklyn last week after the AP reported that the house was swollen 240-licensed bed capacity with evacuees almost double the storm damaged Rockaway Care Center at the Queens shore.
As of Christmas, many of these patients still sleeping, field hospital style, on rows of cots squeezed in community rooms, a gym and the rehabilitation nursing the little chapel.
The State Office of Long Term Care Ombudsman also sent a representative to check on conditions. State Health Department officials were independently investigating how a patient left the facility unnoticed on a cold Friday night, only to turn up in a hospital two days later.
Separately, a legal aid group, MFY Legal Services, ask why the disabled and elderly residents of Belle Harbor Manor, an adult care home in Queens, still asked to sign over most of their monthly social services to the facility to accommodate cover and cardboard, even though they are flooded out of their rooms since Halloween.
After the storm, these residents to an emergency, go to a crowded hotel, and finally to a halfway house for the mentally ill. During that time, many people continue to pay rent to Belle Harbor Manor.
"We do not provide any services had in the last three months. But he's our rent gets. What I want to know is:" Where is that money going? '"Early resident Alex Woods, 57. "After what we went through, he must pay us."
MFY senior attorney Shelly Weizman said it was not clear whether residents legally obliged to continue to pay if they are effective deported by storm.
On Belle Harbor and many other adult care homes in New York, residents sign an agreement when they first arrive that requires them to turn over their social services to the facility, which most of the money used to cover living and care. Administrators back a small portion of the residents in the form of a grant.
A spokeswoman for Episcopal Health Services, which the bishop Hucles nursing possession, said administrators expect that the state will Rock away Care Center approve reopen in about a week, paving the way for the patients to return.
A nursing home and assisted living facility under the supervision of state officials and advocacy group after The Associated Press announced that hundreds of elderly and disabled people forced to evacuate by Super storm Sandy were still sleeping on cots in tight and sometimes oppressive conditions almost two months later.
New York Attorney General sent two investigators to the Bishop Henry B. Hucles episcopal Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Brooklyn last week after the AP reported that the house was swollen 240-licensed bed capacity with evacuees almost double the storm damaged Rockaway Care Center at the Queens shore.
As of Christmas, many of these patients still sleeping, field hospital style, on rows of cots squeezed in community rooms, a gym and the rehabilitation nursing the little chapel.
The State Office of Long Term Care Ombudsman also sent a representative to check on conditions. State Health Department officials were independently investigating how a patient left the facility unnoticed on a cold Friday night, only to turn up in a hospital two days later.
Separately, a legal aid group, MFY Legal Services, ask why the disabled and elderly residents of Belle Harbor Manor, an adult care home in Queens, still asked to sign over most of their monthly social services to the facility to accommodate cover and cardboard, even though they are flooded out of their rooms since Halloween.
After the storm, these residents to an emergency, go to a crowded hotel, and finally to a halfway house for the mentally ill. During that time, many people continue to pay rent to Belle Harbor Manor.
"We do not provide any services had in the last three months. But he's our rent gets. What I want to know is:" Where is that money going? '"Early resident Alex Woods, 57. "After what we went through, he must pay us."
MFY senior attorney Shelly Weizman said it was not clear whether residents legally obliged to continue to pay if they are effective deported by storm.
On Belle Harbor and many other adult care homes in New York, residents sign an agreement when they first arrive that requires them to turn over their social services to the facility, which most of the money used to cover living and care. Administrators back a small portion of the residents in the form of a grant.
A spokeswoman for Episcopal Health Services, which the bishop Hucles nursing possession, said administrators expect that the state will Rock away Care Center approve reopen in about a week, paving the way for the patients to return.
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