The team will spend up to 90 days at the facility assessing “operations, infrastructure and business practices,” the March 9 report said. CMS is giving the facility until Aug. 15 to make major changes or face termination of all federal funding.
Disability Rights New Jersey, a nonprofit federally mandated to protect and advocate for people with disabilities, was also given access to investigate the facility by a district judge, the New Jersey Herald reported March 12.
Admissions were frozen at the facility by the state in February after inspections detailed further neglect. Police discovered a makeshift morgue of 17 bodies at the facility in April 2020. The nursing home was renamed last November.
