Democratic state Sen. Joe Vitale wants to strip responsibility for the veterans facilities from the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and put it into a new Cabinet-level authority. That tracks roughly with what advocates for families of residents have suggested is the problem: Nursing homes being run through a military department instead of a health department.
Murphy hasn't indicated what path he supports. He had promised a comprehensive review of how his administration handled COVID-19, but that's not expected to be out until later this year. He didn't take questions Friday at an event naming Tahesha Way as the new lieutenant governor. Even before the report's release, signs of trouble at the homes had been stirring. In 2021, the Murphy administration reached a $53 million settlement with more than 100 residents at the homes. And in October 2020 federal investigators questioned the Murphy administration's nursing home death count and announced it was launching a formal investigation of the state’s veterans homes.
“Our most vulnerable residents cannot survive this administration’s long-overdue Covid investigation, apathy and inaction,” Republican Assembly Leader John DiMaio said.
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