COVID-19
When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told … Continue reading Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections
A coalition of labor unions, including the Connecticut AFL-CIO, Connecticut Education Association (CEA), State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), and … Continue reading New Labor Ad Campaign Urges a “People’s Recovery”
Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide … Continue reading ‘We were used’: Hundreds of nursing home workers are laid off as financial crisis hits the facilities
The Department of Public Health continues to investigate a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Norwich. According to DPH, … Continue reading Family of Norwich Nursing Home Residents Raise Concerns; DPH Investigation Into Outbreak Continues
COVID-19
Bipartisan lawmakers yesterday slammed Gov. Ned Lamont’s $450,000 interim report on how his administration has failed to stop Covid-19 from … Continue reading Frank Lalli the Health Care Detective™ : Mathematica Interim Report on COVID-19 Outbreak in Connecticut Nursing Homes
FOX61 has been aggressively covering the story of how COVID-19 has impacted longterm care facilities, their residents and their workers. … Continue reading Report finds CT long-term care facilities were not prepared for COVID-19
The state Department of Public health is investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a Norwich nursing home, where at least one … Continue reading One dead in COVID-19 outbreak at Norwich nursing home; state says at least 15 people infected
When prison officials found Daniel Ocasio lifeless on his bunk last week at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center with a COVID-19 … Continue reading COVID, cash bail and ‘drive-by therapy’: a deadly combination
COVID-19 hit nursing homes in the Northeast states particularly hard, but those living in Connecticut long term care facilities died … Continue reading Report offers clues to what went wrong in lethal COVID outbreak in nursing homes
State officials, who had planned to fund the broad testing of nursing home staff through Aug. 31, are extending their … Continue reading State extends funding for nursing home staff testing through October