When the pandemic struck, the majority of the nation’s nursing homes were losing money, some were falling into disrepair, and others … Continue reading Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care
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
Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously asserted the dignity of all work, he seemed … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment
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
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