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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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COVID-19

Unease Increases Among Inmates, DOC Employees

  • May 26, 2020

Inmates in the state prison system are becoming increasingly aggressive toward staff due to the way the coronavirus pandemic is being handled, according to union officials and prison employees. There’s

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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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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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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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COVID-19

Widespread testing has begun at nursing homes. So far, staff are excluded

  • May 13, 2020

Widespread testing at nursing homes across Connecticut has begun, part of a push by Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to curb the spread of COVID-19 among one of the state’s most vulnerable populations.

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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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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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