COVID-19
On Dec. 15, 2016, the nation’s largest nursing home lobby wrote a letter to Donald Trump, congratulating the president-elect and … Continue reading Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years. Now, They’re Coronavirus Hot Spots.
Connecticut
Connecticut Hartford Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut Por … Continue reading Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut
Connecticut
After reporting for weeks that Connecticut Hispanics are only half as likely to die from COVID-19 as non-Hispanic whites, state … Continue reading Disparities in Hispanic and black death rates much worse than previously reported
Federal workplace safety inspectors are investigating the death or hospitalization of at least three Connecticut elder care workers due to … Continue reading Federal Workplace Safety Officials Investigate Three Connecticut Nursing Homes
They don’t wear capes. But they do have masks. Doctors left their private practices to help staff emergency rooms and intensive … Continue reading Health Care Heroes: Saluting Front-Line Workers in the Battle Against the Coronavirus
A noisy caravan of union demonstrators descended on Greenwich on Thursday afternoon, putting a spotlight on what they say are … Continue reading ‘Money Bags and Body Bags’ protest rolls through affluent Greenwich neighborhoods
It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood, a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes — even during the … Continue reading They Look After Our Most Vulnerable. They Make Around $16,200 a Year.
The next Connecticut income tax debate is heating up — but not at the Capitol. A key state legislative caucus … Continue reading Progressives look to bring CT’s tax fairness debate to the grassroots level
With the coronavirus tearing through the Chelsea Place Care Center in Hartford, Cassondra Diaz was careful to take precautions. She … Continue reading ‘We’re essential workers and we’re hurting right now’: Coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on nursing home employees
State mental health workers participated in a car caravan Thursday to express their concerns over the growing denial of care … Continue reading DMHAS Workers Participate in Caravan to Protect Essential Mental Health Services during COVID-19 Pandemic