As Connecticut looks to gradually reopen some businesses this month, public health care workers raised concerns Wednesday that the state … Continue reading Coronavirus resurgence a concern for health care workers as CT looks to reopen
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Connecticut state essential workers from Southbury Training School, the Department of Correction, Connecticut Valley Hospital and other agencies will share … Continue reading CT State Workers Keep Essential Services in Operation Through COVID-19 Crisis
Last summer – months before the novel coronavirus began its deadly race across Connecticut – dozens of residents at a … Continue reading Nursing Homes Hit Hard By COVID-19 Had More Staffing, Infection control problems before pandemic
WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A nursing home worker says she believes she caught coronavirus at work and passed it along … Continue reading ‘Don’t tell me I killed my mom’: Nursing home CNA says she contracted coronavirus at work, passed it along to her mother who died
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As PCAs, too often we’ve been treated like we’re invisible. As a majority female workforce, made up disproportionately of black and … Continue reading Updates on PPE for PCAs – 5.13.20
The federal and state response to COVID-19 in nursing homes is riddled with economic — and racial — inequities that … Continue reading ‘Would this population of caregivers be treated differently if they were white, and male, and wealthy?’
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Car horns blared outside the headquarters of the Department of Corrections in Wethersfield where employees who work the prison system … Continue reading Fox 61 – Corrections employees put on rolling rally to protest Covid-19 conditions at work
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There have been 35 deaths from COVID-19 at Kimberly Hall North nursing home in Windsor, nearly four times the state’s … Continue reading A Connecticut nursing home, Kimberly Hall North in Windsor, has had 35 deaths due to coronavirus outbreak
For the past month or so, Leikish Nails has engaged in an elaborate ritual the minute she gets home from … Continue reading Fear Grips Health Workers Caring For The Elderly