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Soon, Maybe, Nursing Inmates

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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They call them "homes," and what an irony that is. Those

charged with running the nursing homes always stress that the homes are not

prisons. But the recent death of Lillie Gardner, 79, who died hours after being

found in freezing water on the roof of the Bishop Charles Waldo MacLean

Episcopal Nursing Home in Far Rockaway, may mean the advent of some stringent

rules...

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