Cuomo Was Warned His COVID Group Home Policies Would Kill

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Cuomo Was Warned His COVID Group Home Policies Would Kill

The governor's policy of floating caregivers across the state's group homes has likely contributed to hundreds of lives lost.

March 13, 2021|

12:01 am
Michael Volpe


A New York State whistleblower says that another wrongheaded policy has cost lives to the state’s most vulnerable, and he blames Governor Andrew Cuomo.

In 2011, Jeff Monsour won a landmark federal jury trial for whistleblower retaliation after he disclosed abuses in New York state’s group homes. He told The American Conservative that he and Mike Carey, whose son died in a group home over fourteen years ago, have been warning everyone—including Gov. Cuomo—of the so-called floating policy and its deleterious effects on COVID spread in group homes.

“You must immediately STOP all floating of caregivers throughout your entire mental health system. This is extremely dangerous and deadly,” Carey wrote in March 2020 to Cuomo’s office.

Monsour says that this floating system means that group home employees move from one home to another. “They aren’t even required to get tested [for COVID],” Monsour said. As a result, COVID-positive employees could move from home to home, spreading COVID in multiple places.

In May 2020, Cuomo was confronted about this policy by CBS 6 in Albany. “On the moving of staff, I don’t know if that’s proper procedure or not but we can check,” he answered. “I don’t know the policy at OPWDD, but we’ll check with the staffing policy and check to see if there was a change.”

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