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Home Care

Getting by with the ‘grace of god and caffeine’

  • May 4, 2021

It’s been more than a year since COVID-19 came to Connecticut, and Kara O’Dwyer is just barely making it all work. With three jobs, an eighth grader learning at home

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Strikes possible at more than 50 CT nursing homes this spring

  • April 15, 2021

Still reeling financially from the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s nursing home industry could face strikes at more than 50 facilities this spring, an industry leader and a key state health official

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Connecticut

The clouds are starting to open:’ Residents and staff remember hardship, contemplate future one year after COVID hit Connecticut’s nursing homes

  • March 22, 2021

Grace Davis was born during the Spanish flu and outlived two husbands. At 101 years old, she was still going strong when COVID-19 began its lethal spread through Connecticut’s nursing

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Labor-based coalition urges Lamont, lawmakers to tax wealthy to fund ‘people’s recovery’ from pandemic

  • January 4, 2021

A coalition of labor leaders, progressive legislators and other activists upped the pressure Monday on Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly to tax Connecticut’s wealthy to preserve vital services

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Home Care

‘Personal caregivers do noble work — and are not adequately compensated’ – an OP-ED from the CT Mirror

  • December 4, 2020

We were all a little lonelier this Thanksgiving as COVID-19 means that visiting with friends and relatives is risky business. With the stress of working and living with the threat

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COVID-19

COVID, cash bail and ‘drive-by therapy’: a deadly combination

  • August 20, 2020

When prison officials found Daniel Ocasio lifeless on his bunk last week at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center with a COVID-19 mask wrapped around his neck, he became the third incarcerated

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COVID-19

Report offers clues to what went wrong in lethal COVID outbreak in nursing homes

  • August 20, 2020

COVID-19 hit nursing homes in the Northeast states particularly hard, but those living in Connecticut long term care facilities died more frequently than in any other state – a result

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COVID-19

State extends funding for nursing home staff testing through October

  • August 13, 2020

State officials, who had planned to fund the broad testing of nursing home staff through Aug. 31, are extending their financial support through late October, pointing to the importance of

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COVID-19

Lamont is guarding reserves for recession to come. Critics say he’s prioritizing austerity over COVID response

  • August 5, 2020

Five months into the pandemic, with another COVID wave looming and the national economy in free fall, Gov. Ned Lamont is socking away Connecticut’s dollars, reminding lawmakers these resources may

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COVID-19

Broad testing of nursing home staff is considered crucial in stopping COVID. But who will pay for it?

  • July 30, 2020

For months, Lurlette Newell avoided hugs from her grandchildren, a heartbreaking ordeal for a woman who loves to show affection. But Newell, a certified nursing assistant at the Westside Care

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