A state auditor general review of the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 36 elderly military veterans at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home in 2020 blames the governor's Public Health department for failing to “identify and respond to the seriousness of the outbreak.”
The Illinois Veterans' Home in LaSalle on Dec. 14, 2020. The deadly coronavirus outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans' Home killed 36 veterans.
“all but four” of the 36 “residents who died were positive prior to” the agency’s first site visit on Nov. 12, 2020.Mautino’s review, requested by the General Assembly, also said an inspector general’s report ordered by Pritzker and released in April of last year that blamed management failures at the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and the LaSalle home was too narrowly focused on the VA and was flawed because it largely excluded the public health department’s role in the crisis.
The report represents a major embarrassment for Pritzker, a Democrat, as he seeks reelection in November. Pritzker won office in 2018 in part by attacking his predecessor, one-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, for his failure to take quick action after a series of repeated outbreaks of Legionnaire’s disease at the Quincy Veterans Home led to the deaths of 14 veterans.
“From the documents reviewed, IDPH officials did not offer any advice or assistance as to how to slow the spread at the home, offer to provide additional rapid COVID-19 tests and were unsure of the availability of the antibody treatments for long-term care settings prior to being requested by” Kolbeck, the audit said.
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