The nursing home is now under investigation by the state's attorney general.Tip leads police to 17 bodies at a New Jersey nursing homeThe nursing home, the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center, is split into two buildings designated I and II. Twenty-eight people died at Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center II, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health said, which is the same site where earlier this week police found bodies in the morgue. Another eight died at Center I.
A spokesman for the facility said it has been"cooperating with public health officials to prioritize patient safety while caring for the remains of patients who have tragically passed -- including a surge of those lost over the Easter holiday -- even as New Jersey's morgues and funeral homes are being overrun by this deadly disease.