Sen. Sue Rezin | Rezin's Senate website
Sen. Sue Rezin | Rezin's Senate website
Sen. Sue Rezin, in a radio interview for WMAY News with Greg Bishop, talked about the deadly COVID outbreak and deaths at the LaSalle Veterans Home.
The outbreak took 36 veterans' lives and infected 90 percent of the residents in the facility. The senator questioned how this could have happened and why it took 12 days, from the start of the outbreak, for the authorities to do an onsite visit.
Rezin filed a request for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) “to produce all communication between the Department of Public Health, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, between this administration and anyone else that they talked to regarding the outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans Home.” She also claimed that “they have been slow-logging this investigation.”
Citing a previous report by the Auditor General on the Legionnaire's Disease at a veterans' home several years ago, several recommendations were presented including ensuring a timely response for onsite assistance. If this had been done when the LaSalle Veterans Home outbreak started, Rezin said there would have been fewer deaths.
Another part of the senator's FOIA request was the documentation for grants awarded for the health navigators system, including contact tracers, and how the money was distributed and spent.
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