A new fact check from the Lexington Herald Leader confirms that Ralph Alvarado has a record of corruption that has hurt Central Kentuckians.
The fact check says the DCCC’s ad – Investigations – is “accurate.” The ad spotlights how Alvarado served as the medical director for Kentucky nursing homes that faced investigations for awful conditions. Then, Alvarado passed a law while serving in the state senate making it harder to hold those same nursing homes accountable for hurting vulnerable seniors.
The Herald Leader confirms:
- Alvarado “serve[d] in the Kentucky Senate while simultaneously working as medical director for Central Kentucky nursing homes that had serious quality of care issues”;
- Alvarado used his power to “[help] the nursing home industry, including the facilities that employed him.”
- Alvarado oversaw “nearly a half-dozen substandard nursing homes that had records of serious quality of care problems,” including a “mass scabies outbreak” and a patient “drugged up like a zombie.”
- At the same time, Alvarado sponsored multiple pieces of legislation to “limit medical malpractice lawsuits,” and the “damages that can be collected from [them],” the former of which the Kentucky Supreme Court found unconstitutional.
- Alvarado was caught accepting gifts from a firm accused of Medicare fraud. The owner of the firm “also gave $12,000 to Alvarado’s state legislative election campaigns.”
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