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COVID-19

Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years. Now, They’re Coronavirus Hot Spots.

  • June 1, 2020

On Dec. 15, 2016, the nation’s largest nursing home lobby wrote a letter to Donald Trump, congratulating the president-elect and urging him to roll back new regulations on the long-term

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Connecticut

Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut

  • May 29, 2020

Connecticut Hartford Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut Por Redaccion de la Voz Hispana  – May 26, 2020 30

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Connecticut

Disparities in Hispanic and black death rates much worse than previously reported

  • May 29, 2020

After reporting for weeks that Connecticut Hispanics are only half as likely to die from COVID-19 as non-Hispanic whites, state officials now say that Hispanics here are substantially more likely to die

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COVID-19

Federal Workplace Safety Officials Investigate Three Connecticut Nursing Homes

  • May 27, 2020

Federal workplace safety inspectors are investigating the death or hospitalization of at least three Connecticut elder care workers due to complications from COVID-19. The investigations come as union officials say

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Community Programs (CT)

Health Care Heroes: Saluting Front-Line Workers in the Battle Against the Coronavirus

  • May 26, 2020

They don’t wear capes. But they do have masks. Doctors left their private practices to help staff emergency rooms and intensive care units. Nurses held the hands of dying patients too

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Connecticut

‘Money Bags and Body Bags’ protest rolls through affluent Greenwich neighborhoods

  • May 22, 2020

A noisy caravan of union demonstrators descended on Greenwich on Thursday afternoon, putting a spotlight on what they say are the health risks and medical burdens faced by service workers

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Featured Post

They Look After Our Most Vulnerable. They Make Around $16,200 a Year.

  • May 20, 2020

It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood, a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes — even during the coronavirus pandemic — to help them take medication or go

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COVID-19

Progressives look to bring CT’s tax fairness debate to the grassroots level

  • May 19, 2020

The next Connecticut income tax debate is heating up — but not at the Capitol. A key state legislative caucus is crafting a letter urging town and city councils, local

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COVID-19

‘We’re essential workers and we’re hurting right now’: Coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on nursing home employees

  • May 18, 2020

With the coronavirus tearing through the Chelsea Place Care Center in Hartford, Cassondra Diaz was careful to take precautions. She always wore a mask, even though she worked as a

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Connecticut

DMHAS Workers Participate in Caravan to Protect Essential Mental Health Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • May 14, 2020

State mental health workers participated in a car caravan Thursday to express their concerns over the growing denial of care services at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

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