Justice Orders New York Health Department To Provide COVID Nursing Home Death Data

Mealey's (February 5, 2021, 1:03 PM EST) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York justice on Feb. 3 ordered the state Department of Health (DOH) to produce records of the number of COVID-19-related deaths among nursing home and assisted living residents in the state, finding that the department had violated the state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) by rebuffing a nonprofit organization’s request for the information for more than six months....