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Nursing homes plead to state government for additional financial relief due to COVID-19 pandemic

  • September 5, 2020

Nursing homes issued a dire warning Wednesday, with owners saying many of them could close without more help from Hartford. State leaders heard desperate pleas from facilities and the people

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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

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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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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Union representing nursing homes workers says state failed to protect workers and their patients

  • June 17, 2020

The president of the local union that represents nursing home workers said the state has treated them as if they “were invisible” as the deaths mounted in facilities across the

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