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Connecticut

Press Release: Health Care Union Endorses COVID-19 Vaccination for Frontline Workers

  • December 15, 2020

Caregivers encouraged to take new vaccines in the ongoing fight to curb virus spread HARTFORD – The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, fully supports the implementation

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Connecticut

Press Release – SEIU 1199 Union Statement on Discharge at Three Rivers in Norwich

  • September 16, 2020

We are extremely disappointed that the Department of Public Health was not able to step in earlier and do better to fix the problems observed at Three Rivers in Norwich.

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Home Care

Grateful for work of home health aides

  • September 4, 2020

Last year, I came up from Florida to visit my 85-year-old mother in Middletown and decided it was time to stay. Mom had several strokes a number of years ago.

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COVID-19

September 4th is Home Care Day!

  • September 3, 2020

Good union home care jobs must be at the center of fixing our nation’s overstretched and underfunded long-term care system and addressing the systemic racism and sexism that devalues essential

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections

  • September 3, 2020

When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told her children her last wishes. She did not know that

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COVID-19

‘We were used’: Hundreds of nursing home workers are laid off as financial crisis hits the facilities

  • August 31, 2020

Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide Gloria Duquette pushed aside her fear and continued showing up

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COVID-19

Family of Norwich Nursing Home Residents Raise Concerns; DPH Investigation Into Outbreak Continues

  • August 27, 2020

The Department of Public Health continues to investigate a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Norwich. According to DPH, as of last Thursday 13 residents and two staff members

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COVID-19

Frank Lalli the Health Care Detective™ : Mathematica Interim Report on COVID-19 Outbreak in Connecticut Nursing Homes

  • August 24, 2020

Bipartisan lawmakers yesterday slammed Gov. Ned Lamont’s $450,000 interim report on how his administration has failed to stop Covid-19 from killing 3,000 senior living residents so far – more than

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

One dead in COVID-19 outbreak at Norwich nursing home; state says at least 15 people infected

  • August 21, 2020

The state Department of Public health is investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a Norwich nursing home, where at least one resident has died and several are hospitalized after a supervisor

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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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