A behind-the-scenes battle raged between
top Murphy aides over $500k contract
as nursing home deaths mounted
N.J.com,
by
Susan K. Livio
&
Ted Sherman
Original Article
Posted By: poliposter,
5/29/2020 1:18:02 PM
New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli and senior officials in Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration clashed behind the scenes over the cost of a $500,000 no-bid contract for a consultant the state hired to help navigate the deadly coronavirus crisis inside the state’s nursing homes, NJ Advance Media has learned. Murphy announced May 6 that Persichilli had retained Manatt Health, a national health advisory consulting group, to assess the state’s response to the coronavirus in long-term care facilities, where one in 13 residents have died in the pandemic. And Persichilli seemed in full accord with the governor. [split] But inside the administration, a different story was playing out.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 5/29/2020 1:46:45 PM (No. 425497)
Sucks. Had they asked me, I could have done the job for $499k. Or even $49k.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
edgar 5/29/2020 1:55:27 PM (No. 425511)
Sounds like a PR group looking to deflect blame from the Murphy Admin for the mis-step of routing Covid positive patients to nursing homes where people most vulnerable to the virus are housed, without sufficient facilities to segregate the Covid positive from the other patients. Is it better than Cuomo saying they followed the CDC guidelines, even though they clearly did not? We will see.
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As a NJ resident, I can say we have a governor who exposes the most vulnerable to a deadly disease while preventing people from exercising and increasing their health. NJ voters will re-elect him when he runs again, because NJ voters are STUPID !!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
synchronicity 5/29/2020 2:12:58 PM (No. 425536)
Is there anything that isn't above this guy's pay grade?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/29/2020 2:34:08 PM (No. 425551)
Hire incompetent leftist fools to lead you, and you will ALWAYS get horrifically bad outcomes.
In normal times, they can "sort of " muddle through, and things only get moderately worse.
In abnormal, stressful times, when REAL leadership, intelligence, foresight and planning are needed.....leftists are totally left out, they have none of these skills. In fact, they sneer at these things, having avoided them their whole lives. Sometimes the results are lost opportunities, other times the results are lost lives, lost businesses, lost fortunes, lost health.
You folks voted for this slug. Enjoy his tenure.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Alecto2 5/29/2020 3:05:58 PM (No. 425572)
MAY 6th!! Good God, for 3 months they were sitting around with their thumbs up their bums. From the very outset, in Washington State, it was obvious where the greatest danger lay, in the long term care facilities and they did NOTHING to prepare. Criminal.
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Could it be the people running Manatt Health just happen to be Democrat operatives?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/29/2020 7:55:48 PM (No. 425780)
WHAT??
The Governor of New Jersey is corrupt and awards sweetheart contracts to his buddies (because he thinks he can stick Trump with the funding)??
I'm shocked!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/30/2020 1:42:14 AM (No. 425970)
"And Persichilli warned what would happen when the contract would ultimately be released under the Open Public Records Act."
There's the real reason right there. The report might find the killing of nursing home patients was deliberate.
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