Washington D.C. — In a decision Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case holding Former Governor Cuomo’s administration and the Greater New York Hospital Association responsible for thousands of deaths in New York nursing homes.
An amended complaint filed in 2023 was filed by New York nursing home residents who died during the first wave of COVID-19. They pointed to a March 2025 directive by the Cuomo administration to put COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes. The directive was rescinded six weeks later.
The complaint argues that the administration violated the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act, which establishes nursing home residents’ statutory rights to safety, dignity, and protection.
The case was picked up by the Supreme Court after a lower court dismissed the case, granting qualified immunity to the Former Governer, as well as his former secretary and DOH commissioner.
BACKGROUND: Andrew Cuomo again blamed for COVID-19 nursing home deaths, accused of cover-up
In 2024, A Republican-led panel said Cuomo and his aides “recklessly” exposed New York’s most vulnerable population to COVID-19. However, A Spokesperson for Former Governor Cuomo hit back at the report, saying the investigations failed to provide any evidence that nursing home admissions were “mandatory.”
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