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
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
Good union home care jobs must be at the center of fixing our nation’s overstretched and underfunded long-term care system … Continue reading September 4th is Home Care Day!
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
The Department of Public Health continues to investigate a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Norwich. According to DPH, … Continue reading Family of Norwich Nursing Home Residents Raise Concerns; DPH Investigation Into Outbreak Continues
COVID-19
Bipartisan lawmakers yesterday slammed Gov. Ned Lamont’s $450,000 interim report on how his administration has failed to stop Covid-19 from … Continue reading Frank Lalli the Health Care Detective™ : Mathematica Interim Report on COVID-19 Outbreak in Connecticut Nursing Homes
The state Department of Public health is investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a Norwich nursing home, where at least one … Continue reading One dead in COVID-19 outbreak at Norwich nursing home; state says at least 15 people infected
When prison officials found Daniel Ocasio lifeless on his bunk last week at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center with a COVID-19 … Continue reading COVID, cash bail and ‘drive-by therapy’: a deadly combination