Dire recount of senior vics

After Post exposé of home

A Bronx nursing home has dramatically raised the death count of its residents from the coronavirus — after The Post reported allegations that it had substantially lowballed the tally to the state.

Staffers at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale have been crying foul because, as of Sunday, state records indicated that the facility supposedly had 20 confirmed or presumed contagion deaths.

But the workers told The Post as far back as May 9 that 119 residents — many with suspected COVID-19 symptoms — have died at the facility in the past two months.

The Post’s exposé on the claims prompted the state Department of Health to open a probe into Hebrew Home, to make sure residents were tested for the virus — and to review the records of every patient who had died there since the pandemic began.

Hebrew Home CEO Daniel Reingold sent a letter to staffers and other facilities owned by parent company RiverSpring Health Community on Monday addressing the issue — and significantly raising the center’s coronavirus death toll.

He said there were 63 COVIDrelated deaths — 35 confirmed and 28 reclassified as presumed positive — at Hebrew Home between March 1 and May 8.

No explanation was given as to why the state still has only 20 COVID-linked fatalities reported at the facility.

Reingold said that testing last week showed that 109 residents and 64 staffers were positive for COVID-19 at the 751-bed center. Most hadn’t been showing symptoms.

The CEO also defended the earlier, lower death count.

“As more information has been gleaned about symptoms, [state] DOH and CDC guidelines have evolved. In view of this, we worked closely with the Department of Health to go through records from each resident who died within that time period to make sure we are reporting the most accurate figures possible,’’ Reingold said in the letter.

“Accordingly, we are reclassifying 28 of these resident deaths as ‘possibly caused by COVID-19.’ ”