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Lawsuits filed over the high number of deaths at two NJ VA homes are showing how bad decisions by unqualified people killed off hundreds of patients.<\/p>\n
One nurse at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial at Menlo Park …went to Walmart to buy fabric to make her own (mask), she was threatened that “there could be consequences” for violating the facility’s no-mask mandate.<\/p>\n
Accusing the state of being “grossly negligent, knowingly careless, and reckless,” while deviating from accepted standards of long-term care when the first threats of COVID began to appear, the complaints… cited disciplinary threats and termination for wearing masks. The lawsuits also allege that state and nursing home administrators deliberately released misinformation on the number of cases as residents kept getting sick and died in droves.<\/p>\n
They also charged that Menlo Park’s nursing staff was directed to cease testing residents for COVID after several residents tested positive, and forced presumably COVID-positive employees to work at the Menlo Park Home.<\/p>\n
In some cases, according to the complaints, public statements were released that were at odds with information the department had in hand, according to internal emails.<\/p>\n
Two of the state’s veterans homes \u2014 the one in Menlo Park and a second in Paramus \u2014 reported some of the highest COVID-related death tolls in the nation. A third state-operated facility is in Vineland. Overall, COVID claimed the lives of more than 200 residents and staff in the veteran’s homes, according to the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n