Holyoke Soldiers' Home

Employees at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where dozens of veterans died during an outbreak at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, are calling for accountability.

In a lawsuit, an employee accuses managers and supervisors at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home of making a series of “criminally catastrophic decisions” in their mishandling of COVID-19 in the facility.

More than 70 people died in the COVID-19 outbreak in the home for veterans at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, one of the deadliest such outbreaks at a U.S. long-term care facility.

Massachusetts’ highest court heard a case over whether two former leaders of the Holyoke Soldiers Home should face charges over the deadly COVID outbreak in 2020.

The trustees that govern the Holyoke Soldiers Home have tapped its first permanent leader since the aftermath of a COVID-19 outbreak that killed dozens of veterans died there, sources tell the NBC10 Investigators. Mike Lazo, a licensed nursing home administrator, was appointed by the Board of Trustees, sources say. He is a former colonel of the Massachusetts National Guard who…

Twenty-eight months after COVID-19 tore through the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts and leaders fumbled the response with deadly consequences, House and Senate lawmakers agreed Wednesday on a bill that would overhaul oversight, management requirements and crisis response at state-run long-term care facilities for veterans. A conference committee tasked with resolving differences in each branch’s reform bill filed a...