{"id":55929,"date":"2022-05-06T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/06\/audit-urgent-response-lacking-in-covid-19-outbreak-at-veterans-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:26:54","slug":"audit-urgent-response-lacking-in-covid-19-outbreak-at-veterans-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2022\/05\/06\/audit-urgent-response-lacking-in-covid-19-outbreak-at-veterans-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit: Urgent response lacking in COVID-19 outbreak at veterans home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPRINGFIELD, Ill. \u2014 Sluggishness, poor compliance with existing rules and little help from state public health officials crippled the response by Gov. J.B. Pritzker\u2019s administration to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/11\/25\/another-fatal-outbreak-27-covid-deaths-at-illinois-vets-nursing-home-prompts-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\">November 2020 COVID-19 outbreak<\/a> at a northern Illinois veterans home that claimed 36 lives, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.illinois.gov\/Audit-Reports\/Performance-Special-Multi\/Performance-Audits\/2022_Releases\/22-LaSalle-Vet-Home-Covid-19-Response-Perf-Digest.pdf\">state audit released Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review by Auditor General Frank Mautino contends the Illinois Department of Public Health \u201cdid not identify and respond to the seriousness of the outbreak.\u201d For nearly two weeks after the problem was identified Nov. 1 at the LaSalle Veterans Home, IDPH officials failed to visit the site and offered no assistance. LaSalle staff testing for the virus was slow and poorly coordinated, the review said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, 85% of the home\u2019s 128 residents and 38% of its 231 staff members contracted the illness during the outbreak, which Mautino noted occurred when infections statewide were rising rapidly and there was yet no preventive vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pritzker, a Democrat, blamed Republicans who opposed tactics to stop the spread of COVID-19, suggesting non-compliant visitors unwittingly carried the virus into the LaSalle home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were working against Republican elected officials who told people to defy mitigation efforts&#8230;,\u201d Pritzker told reporters at the Capitol. \u201cRepublicans told them that they did not need to wear masks. They told people that they didn\u2019t need to get vaccinated. They told people that COVID wasn\u2019t serious. Those lies put people\u2019s lives at risk, especially the most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2021\/09\/29\/families-demand-change-after-dozens-died-in-veterans-home-covid-19-outbreak\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20119595882275.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Families demand change after dozens died in veterans\u2019 home COVID-19 outbreak<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Families of veterans who died in a COVID-19 outbreak want to see changes in how Massachusetts oversees its veterans homes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But an April 2021 report by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-government-and-politics-health-515619f9efad1fc2c1c9c0fd36e5b8ca\">inspector general of the Department of Human Services<\/a>&nbsp;reported that during an onsite visit, which didn\u2019t occur until Nov. 12, officials discovered ineffective, alcohol-free hand sanitizer in abundant use and no one responsible for replacing it, staff members reporting for duty by taking their own temperatures and initialing results, and scant availability and use of personal protective equipment such as face coverings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mautino reported that LaSalle administrators had reams of COVID-19-specific guidelines for stopping the spread available from both federal and state experts, as well as long-established pre-pandemic infection control policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pritzker, who later acknowledged \u201csome management faults\u201d were to blame and said that as governor, \u201cI understand that these agencies are my responsibility,\u201d maintained that he held staff accountable, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/illinois-chicago-coronavirus-pandemic-restaurants-93b576c391a2b16eaf435e127258410d\">firing LaSalle director Angela Mehlbrech<\/a>&nbsp;in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he said that to the extent that IDPH is at fault for not providing more assistance, the agency controlled the entire state response during the pandemic\u2019s worst surge and was dealing with hot spots in every direction. But at no time during the fall of 2020 or at any time during the pandemic did Pritzker or his team suggest IDPH couldn\u2019t keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IDPH couldn\u2019t have been caught off-guard despite the precipitous statewide surge. The audit reports that the Pritzker administration was monitoring COVID-19 in 710 long-term care facilities across Illinois. The first week of November, 2020, only four of them reported more than 50 new cases and LaSalle was the only facility with more than 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was a red flag that should have generated an alert and immediate administration response, Mautino said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Lance Yednock, an Ottawa Democrat who led the House call for Mautino\u2019s audit, lamented a breakdown in inter-agency coordination which \u201cvery likely led to more sickness and deaths.\u201d However, he acknowledged that \u201cthe terrifying speed of infection\u201d might have rendered the best preparation inadequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mautino\u2019s auditors found that last year\u2019s inspector general\u2019s report had wrongly tainted Anthony Kolbeck, then chief of staff for Veterans\u2019 Affairs. Instead of tracking the outbreak, Mautino reviewed scores of emails and determined that Kolbeck reported to IDPH regularly on the situation from its inception. When IDPH didn\u2019t act, the audit said Kolbeck requested the agency make a site visit and sought information on rapid tests and antibody treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kolbeck nonetheless resigned in the weeks following the outbreak\u2019s fallout. 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