The numbers suggest that the death toll at the facilities in Menlo Park and Paramus was far higher than the state has ever admitted.
— begun under the Trump administration and continued by the Biden administration — is looking at possible violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
The state Attorney General’s Office also is investigating how New Jersey’s long-term care facilities — which include the veterans’ homes — responded to the pandemic. Administrators of the facilities were accused as well of failing to institute proper infection prevention measures as the virus began running rampant — despite clear evidence of just how quickly COVID was spreading.
In the earlier cases brought by attorneys of families leading to the December settlement, it had been alleged that those in charge waited far too long before isolating confirmed or suspected COVID-19 residents.
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