The single-story red brick building looks unremarkable on the outside. But this nursing home in central Connecticut is now the … Continue reading Connecticut launches bold new approach to virus crisis: COVID-19-only nursing homes
Janell Roberts was stunned when she opened a box of personal protective equipment shipped by the state Department of Social … Continue reading Home health aide: ‘They are playing a game with our lives’
When the pandemic struck, the majority of the nation’s nursing homes were losing money, some were falling into disrepair, and others … Continue reading Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care
As Connecticut looks to gradually reopen some businesses this month, public health care workers raised concerns Wednesday that the state … Continue reading Coronavirus resurgence a concern for health care workers as CT looks to reopen
Last summer – months before the novel coronavirus began its deadly race across Connecticut – dozens of residents at a … Continue reading Nursing Homes Hit Hard By COVID-19 Had More Staffing, Infection control problems before pandemic
Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously asserted the dignity of all work, he seemed … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment
The federal and state response to COVID-19 in nursing homes is riddled with economic — and racial — inequities that … Continue reading ‘Would this population of caregivers be treated differently if they were white, and male, and wealthy?’
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There have been 35 deaths from COVID-19 at Kimberly Hall North nursing home in Windsor, nearly four times the state’s … Continue reading A Connecticut nursing home, Kimberly Hall North in Windsor, has had 35 deaths due to coronavirus outbreak
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About half the nursing homes in the state – 108 – have had at least one case of COVID-19 and … Continue reading Nursing Home Workers Concerned About PPE Supplies
Congressional Democrats are trying to add $13 per hour hazard payments for frontline health care workers up to a total … Continue reading Democrats Seek Hazard Pay For Health Workers Amid Pandemic