Tag: Empire Center for Public Policy

Cuomo Administration Releases FOIL-Requested Nursing Home Data

Mary Pat Campbell
Cuomo Administration Releases FOIL-Requested Nursing Home Data

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Tonight the Cuomo administration released additional data on coronavirus deaths in long-term care facilities that the Empire Center requested under the Freedom of Information Law.

The data have been posted on our website here.

The release came six months after the FOIL request was submitted, five months after we and the Government Justice Center filed suit, and one week after a court found that the department had violated FOIL and ordered it to release what were clearly public records.

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COVID Nursing Home Data

Author(s): press release

Publication Date: 10 February 2021

Publication Site: Empire Center for Public Policy

NYC Public Educator Pensions Rise Again

Mary Pat Campbell
NYC Public Educator Pensions Rise Again

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Average pension benefits paid to newly retired public educators in New York City rose again in 2020, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net for New York City Teachers’ Retirement System (NYCTRS). 

The pension benefits collected by 969 teachers, college instructors, and school administrators who retired in 2019 with at least 30 years of service credit and received a full year of pension benefits in 2020 averaged $75,212.  

NYCTRS paid six-figure pension benefits to 3,708 retired New York City teachers. Of those retirees collecting more than $100,000, 104 retired during the 2019 calendar year.  

Author(s): press release

Publication Date: 11 February 2021

Publication Site: Empire Center for Public Policy

New York Reveals Another 1,516 COVID-19 Deaths in Long-Term Care Facilities

Mary Pat Campbell
New York Reveals Another 1,516 COVID-19 Deaths in Long-Term Care Facilities

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The death toll in New York’s long-term care facilities jumped by another 1,516 this weekend as the Cuomo administration adjusted its reporting on adult-care facilities to include residents who died after being transferred to hospitals.

The newly disclosed deaths represented an almost eight-fold increase for assisted living and other adult-care facilities, which provide non-medical services for their elderly and disabled residents.

Author(s): Bill Hammond

Publication Date: 7 February 2021

Publication Site: Empire Center

The State’s Revised Nursing Home Death Toll Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Mary Pat Campbell
The State’s Revised Nursing Home Death Toll Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

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Numbers belatedly released by the Cuomo administration last week pushed New York’s COVID-19 mortality rate in nursing homes from 35th to 13th highest in the U.S., an Empire Center analysis shows.

The new total of almost 13,000 deaths amounts to 14 percent of New York’s pre-pandemic nursing home population, which is 2 points above the national average (see chart).

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Author: Bill Hammond

Publication Date: 5 February 2021

Publication Site: Empire Center for Public Policy