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COVID-19

US nursing homes seek legal immunity as Covid-19 spreads ‘like brushfire’

  • May 14, 2020

The US nursing home industry is clamoring for legal immunity during the coronavirus pandemic, even as horror stories from hard-hit facilities enrage families, consumer advocates and the American public. Healthcare

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COVID-19

Connecticut launches bold new approach to virus crisis: COVID-19-only nursing homes

  • May 12, 2020

The single-story red brick building looks unremarkable on the outside. But this nursing home in central Connecticut is now the site of a novel approach to protect the population most

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COVID-19

Home health aide: ‘They are playing a game with our lives’

  • May 11, 2020

Janell Roberts was stunned when she opened a box of personal protective equipment shipped by the state Department of Social Services to her home care client last week. West Haven

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COVID-19

Frank Lalli, The Health Care Detective™: COVID-19 Diary Entry Number 7 – Friday May 8, 2020

  • May 11, 2020

Frank has chronicled his experience with the health care system in the New York Times op-ed piece “A Health Insurance Detective Story.” He has since become The Health Care Detective™ in

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State Employees

SEBAC Union Leadership Comments on Meeting with Administration (Updated 5.9.20)

  • May 11, 2020

Coalition Update: as of May 9, 2020 To All State Employee Unions: On May 1st, in response to questions about contractual raises due to state employees in the next fiscal

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Connecticut

Coronavirus resurgence a concern for health care workers as CT looks to reopen

  • May 7, 2020

As Connecticut looks to gradually reopen some businesses this month, public health care workers raised concerns Wednesday that the state could see a resurgence of coronavirus infections in the fall,

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COVID-19

Nursing Homes Hit Hard By COVID-19 Had More Staffing, Infection control problems before pandemic

  • May 5, 2020

Last summer – months before the novel coronavirus began its deadly race across Connecticut – dozens of residents at a Waterbury nursing home started wheezing. Some had trouble breathing. Others

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