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Connecticut

DMHAS Workers Participate in Caravan to Protect Essential Mental Health Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • May 14, 2020

State mental health workers participated in a car caravan Thursday to express their concerns over the growing denial of care services at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers say they’re still not getting enough PPE

  • May 14, 2020

Nursing home workers lined the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, demanding PPE. They say their companies are not providing enough of it and want the state to step in.

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COVID-19

Widespread testing has begun at nursing homes. So far, staff are excluded

  • May 13, 2020

Widespread testing at nursing homes across Connecticut has begun, part of a push by Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to curb the spread of COVID-19 among one of the state’s most vulnerable populations.

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COVID-19

DMHAS Members – Join the Movement!

  • May 13, 2020

Dear 1199 Member: Over the last month, more than 1,400 DMHAS 1199 members have signed a petition to Commissioner Delphin-Rittmon; our delegates have had two meetings with DMHAS Administration, and

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COVID-19

Home health aide: ‘They are playing a game with our lives’

  • May 11, 2020

Janell Roberts was stunned when she opened a box of personal protective equipment shipped by the state Department of Social Services to her home care client last week. West Haven

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Connecticut

Coronavirus resurgence a concern for health care workers as CT looks to reopen

  • May 7, 2020

As Connecticut looks to gradually reopen some businesses this month, public health care workers raised concerns Wednesday that the state could see a resurgence of coronavirus infections in the fall,

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Connecticut

CT State Workers Keep Essential Services in Operation Through COVID-19 Crisis

  • May 6, 2020

Connecticut state essential workers from Southbury Training School, the Department of Correction, Connecticut Valley Hospital and other agencies will share their stories from the front lines of novel coronavirus. “Three

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Connecticut

PPE For Nursing Homes During Coronavirus Outbreak

  • May 5, 2020
COVID-19

Nursing Homes Hit Hard By COVID-19 Had More Staffing, Infection control problems before pandemic

  • May 5, 2020

Last summer – months before the novel coronavirus began its deadly race across Connecticut – dozens of residents at a Waterbury nursing home started wheezing. Some had trouble breathing. Others

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Connecticut

‘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

  • May 1, 2020

WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A nursing home worker says she believes she caught coronavirus at work and passed it along to her mother who later died of the virus. Certified

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