COVID-19
District 1199 New England is encouraging workers to get vaccinated against COVID since last December based on the advice and … Continue reading Statement on requirement for employees of long-term care facilities to receive COVID-19 vaccinations
COVID-19
So far, tens of thousands of Connecticut residents have already received the COVID-19 vaccine. Yet nationally, vaccine rollout has been … Continue reading Checking In On The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
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The union that represents 10,000 home health care workers recently found out that the state will no longer be distributing … Continue reading State Halts PPE For Homecare Workers
Good union home care jobs must be at the center of fixing our nation’s overstretched and underfunded long-term care system … Continue reading September 4th is Home Care Day!
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
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
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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
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