Connecticut
More than 100 long-term care workers blocked traffic in Hartford at the Department of Social Services to draw attention to … Continue reading Long-Term Care Workers Stop Traffic in Fight Against Poverty Wages
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
Connecticut
Caregivers encouraged to take new vaccines in the ongoing fight to curb virus spread HARTFORD – The New England Health … Continue reading Press Release: Health Care Union Endorses COVID-19 Vaccination for Frontline Workers
Connecticut
We are extremely disappointed that the Department of Public Health was not able to step in earlier and do better … Continue reading Press Release – SEIU 1199 Union Statement on Discharge at Three Rivers in Norwich
NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the … Continue reading All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak
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Nursing homes issued a dire warning Wednesday, with owners saying many of them could close without more help from Hartford. … Continue reading Nursing homes plead to state government for additional financial relief due to COVID-19 pandemic
Last year, I came up from Florida to visit my 85-year-old mother in Middletown and decided it was time to … Continue reading Grateful for work of home health aides
COVID-19
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
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