Why should it take a report from the Attorney General for the state to release the number of nursing home residents who guide in the hospital, which is a number that we've been looking for for quite a while?

Uh, this report affirms everything the commissioner said.

For the past year, the state Department of Health followed federal guidance by CMS and C.

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Commissioner said no, not for profit.

Nursing home was forced to take anyone.

Report confirms that if they took a person who was not who they could not care for a covert positive person.

They violated the law.

The report says that, uh, and the Department of Health Onley counted the number of deaths in hospitals and the number of deaths in nursing homes released that number.

That number stays the same.

Why did you count hospital deaths separately from nursing home deaths and going forward?

Is there a plan to do that differently?

We count hospital deaths.

Correct me if I'm wrong, we count hospital deaths.

The Department of Health counts deaths in the facilities where they occurred.

So if you die in a hospital, that's the hospital death number.

If you die in a nursing home.

That's the nursing home number.

You add the two numbers together.

That's the total death number.

The federal government never gave any state clear guidelines on how they should be reporting anything.

Frankly, to date, 13 states report absolutely zero data on nursing home deaths and only nine states in the country New York being one of them gives the presumed number.

So I would argue at this point, New York puts out more data on deaths than any other state in the country.

And at the beginning of this, when it was a real crush, you had nursing homes, reporting deaths.

You had hospital reporting deaths, and I remember Dio, which was trying to determine whether or not there was gonna be double counting, and the cleanest way to do that was to say, do it where the person died.