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2023-2026 District Election Results Are In!

  • May 1, 2023

The results for the District Elections for 2023-2026 are as follows:

Nursing Homes & Hospitals

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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Nursing Homes

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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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

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

Report finds CT long-term care facilities were not prepared for COVID-19

  • August 21, 2020

FOX61 has been aggressively covering the story of how COVID-19 has impacted longterm care facilities, their residents and their workers. Now, a new report sheds light on how it got

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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

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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COVID-19

Gov. Ned Lamont will issue order making it easier for essential workers who contract COVID-19 to collect workers’ compensation

  • July 20, 2020

HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont said Friday he will soon issue an executive order that will make it easier for frontline workers who contract COVID-19 to qualify for workers’ compensation

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