When the first Connecticut prison inmate tested positive for COVID-19 at the end of March, officials at the Department of Correction acted fast. The 32-year-old man had been isolated from the rest of the incarcerated population at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center as soon as he started showing symptoms. Once he tested positive, authorities placed him in
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — They sound like soldiers, facing an enemy both invisible and treacherous. At the hospitals, they care for the sick and prepare for a surge of COVID-19 patients. At the nursing homes, they try to protect their fragile residents against a virus that’s sickened and killed dozens of other elderly people. The nurses
Video streaming conference on April 8th with SEIU 1199 NE President Rob Baril and nursing home workers who are risking their lives in the front lines. Healthcare workers and their patients are dying on the front lines due to lack of PPE. Please sign SEIU’s petition for PPEs: https://act.seiu.org/onlineactions/TnmmHcW33k-IQ5jSXEDdLg2
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Watch today’s press conference with Senator Richard Blumenthal, #SEIU1199NE and AFT Connecticut workers on the impact of coronavirus at our health care facilities. #ProtectAllWorkers #CaregiversCount
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Below is a UConn Health Labor Coalition report made publicly available and open to news media citation, reproduction and distribution in full or in part. For questions or contact info contact Terri Reid at treidct@gmail.com or call 617.470.8985. UConn Health Labor Coalition Driving Effort to Protect Health Care Workers and Their Patients A mass 3D-printing
by Lisa Backus | Mar 30, 2020 11:30am If Lynda Frank gets sick while working as a home personal care aide, she’s caught between the threat of passing the illness to her clients or not getting paid. “You don’t want to endanger yourself or the clients,” the fifty-something Bridgeport resident said. “If any of our home care
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Social distancing is one way to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but for health care workers who provide care in people’s homes, especially for the elderly, that type of care brings heightened risks, experts say. Home health workers assist clients with daily tasks such as bathing, dressing, toileting, walking and transferring out of bed; all things
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Earlier this week, members at Greater Bridgeport Mental Health Center, Connecticut Valley Hospital, and other facilities across the state were growing increasingly concerned about the lack of temperature screenings for staff entering facilities. Delegates throughout the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services decided to collectively demand a process of systematic screenings at their labor-management
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Act now and send this petition to the Commissioners regarding our well being amidst COVID-19! Toma acción ahora y envía esta petición a los Comisionados para velar por nuestro bienestar durante la crisis de COVID-19 To: DSS Commissioner Deidre Gifford, DSS Division of Health Services Director Kate McEvoy, DDS Commissioner Jordan Scheff and PCA Workforce
The union, which represents 25,000 government and private-sector health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, group homes and home care settings, raised a host of concerns at a press conference Thursday afternoon. They ranged from insufficient availability of masks and other supplies to issues related to health care workers who are unable to go to