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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

Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care

  • May 8, 2020

When the pandemic struck, the majority of the nation’s nursing homes were losing money, some were falling into disrepair, and others were struggling to attract new occupants, leaving many of them

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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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COVID-19

Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment

  • April 29, 2020

Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously asserted the dignity of all work, he seemed to foresee this moment when it would become so clear

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COVID-19

‘Would this population of caregivers be treated differently if they were white, and male, and wealthy?’

  • April 27, 2020

The federal and state response to COVID-19 in nursing homes is riddled with economic — and racial — inequities that are taking a greater toll in deaths and illnesses than

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COVID-19

A Connecticut nursing home, Kimberly Hall North in Windsor, has had 35 deaths due to coronavirus outbreak

  • April 22, 2020

There have been 35 deaths from COVID-19 at Kimberly Hall North nursing home in Windsor, nearly four times the state’s official number for the facility, as the coronavirus continues to

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COVID-19

Nursing Home Workers Concerned About PPE Supplies

  • April 21, 2020

About half the nursing homes in the state – 108 – have had at least one case of COVID-19 and it has left workers feeling scared and not prepared. Outside

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Connecticut

Democrats Seek Hazard Pay For Health Workers Amid Pandemic

  • April 9, 2020

Congressional Democrats are trying to add $13 per hour hazard payments for frontline health care workers up to a total of $25,000 in the next coronavirus relief package, along with

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