Watch NJ Nursing Home Ex-Employee Talk About ‘Makeshift Morgue’

SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ — It was a story that went viral around the world during the COVID pandemic’s early days, about 17 bodies stacked in a “makeshift morgue” in Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation, a facility that’s since changed its name.

Now called the Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center, the facility has faced class action lawsuits from families after their loved ones died at Andover Subacute in April 2020.

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A ballot question on which more than 82 residents in Sussex County voted “yes” on Nov. 2, also calls for a deeper investigation statewide of the COVID-19 deaths in New Jersey’s nursing homes and the state’s handling of the crisis.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt aired an interview on Thursday night with one former Andover Subacute employee who told NBC’s Stephanie Gosk for the first time, what he experienced while working at that facility during the pandemic, with the makeshift morgue particularly and finding a body in a shed on the property when the morgue overflowed with deceased residents.

Watch the video below to hear what this employee had to say and read more about NBC’s investigation here.

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