ALBANY — An Albany nursing home that cares for some of the state’s most vulnerable children will pay $1.3 million after investigators found it had neglected its young residents for years while fraudulently billing Medicaid for care it failed to provide.
St. Margaret’s Center, a not-for-profit pediatric skilled nursing facility operated by the Center for Disability Services, endangered chronically ill and disabled children from 2018 through 2023 by consistently understaffing the facility and failing to meet basic standards of care, according to a court settlement the facility reached with the state attorney general’s office and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Albany. The facility admitted wrongdoing.
“For years, St. Margaret’s failed to follow the law and endangered vulnerable children with poor staffing and care,” state Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement…