nursing homes

The state of Connecticut has ordered some residents to evacuate a nursing and rehabilitation center in Waterford due to asbestos concerns.

The state of Connecticut ordered the evacuation of 69 people from a nursing and rehabilitation center in Waterford on Thursday. On Friday, the Connecticut Department of Public Health provided new details on what led to the evacuation. Families found out there are potential asbestos concerns in the facility. “I am very upset, very upset that this had to get to…

Twenty years have passed since a fire at a Hartford nursing home killed 16 people. A ceremony was held Friday to honor them.

Nursing homes in Connecticut have seen a drastic increase in COVID-19 cases in the past few weeks.

Workers at Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center are preparing to strike on Friday due to what they say are serious labor violations.

A major report says American nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, and that facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced.

Emotions are high for many Connecticut families after learning their loved ones must be moved from a Wallingford nursing home. The state made the rare move to order the transfer of patients after determining an ongoing failure to correct serious health and safety issues at the Quinnipiac Valley Center, findings they say are “serious enough to risk imminent harm to…

President Joe Biden is launching a major overhaul of nursing home quality in his State of the Union speech

Gov. Ned Lamont visited a nursing home in Bloomfield today to talk about the steps the state has taken to protect its most vulnerable residents. The visit comes just weeks before vaccination and visitation rules change. “My home pretty much has what it needs to protect me from COVID,” said John Baliscano, a nursing home resident. “We can do rapid…

Today, Governor Ned Lamont and other officials talked about what the state has done to protect people in nursing homes. Beginning March 15, visitors will longer need to be vaccinated or show proof of a negative test.

Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.

Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive order requiring nursing home visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test result is now in effect.

Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive order requiring nursing home visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test result is now in effect. The governor made the announcement about the requirement on Wednesday. “We know that some of the people who are most vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19 include those who live in nursing homes, which...

Starting Saturday, proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will be required when entering nursing homes inside the state.

Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order Wednesday requiring nursing home visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test result. The order directs nursing home facilities to require those visitors to show proof of vaccination or a negative test. “We know that some of the people who are most vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19 include…

COVID cases among nursing home staff have doubled in the past week, to 14-hundred, according to Social Services Commissioner, Deidre Gifford. Resident cases were also on the rise. Thursday, Governor Ned Lamont announced a new executive order mandating that staff and contractors at state hospitals and nursing homes get a COVID-19 booster shot by February 11. Many of those employees…

Nursing home workers and hospital staff in Connecticut will be required to get the COVID-19 booster shot by February 11.

Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots amid a spike in COVID-19 cases among staffers and a concerning lag in booster vaccination for residents and staff

We’re revisiting a local story that dominated national headlines about a month ago. It was mid-November and when everything unfolded at the Geer Village Senior Community in Canaan. Eight people died and nearly 90 had become infected with Covid-19. It started around the beginning of October, but just a few weeks later, those senior residents had passed away. With the…

It has been 19 months since the discovery of 17 bodies in a tiny morgue at the Andover Subacute II nursing home in Sussex County, New Jersey, in April 2020.