Connecticut opens fourth COVID recovery center to relieve nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 30, 2020
The state of Connecticut is opening a fourth recovery center for COVID-19 patients in an effort to ease stress on nursing providers throughout the state.
Focus shifts to short-stay residents to prevent future COVID-19 outbreaks
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 08, 2021
Health officials in some areas are turning their focus to vaccinating short-stay nursing home residents in an effort to halt a potential surge in cases and deaths.
Providers pushing back against effort that would make nursing homes liable for COVID-19 failures
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 06, 2021
Long-term care providers are trying to thwart an effort by Connecticut lawmakers that would allow lawsuits to be filed against nursing homes that failed to comply with state and federal COVID-19 guidance...
Can massive nursing homes strike be averted? That’s the $280 million question
By
Danielle Brown
May 12, 2021
An additional $280 million in funding for nursing homes — including a 10% boost for Medicaid and a 4.5% wage increase — has been proposed by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) in an effort to avert a...
Long-term care providers to pilot new teamwork training protocol
By
Ashley Carman
Jul 19, 2013
A Medicare quality improvement organization is looking for long-term care providers to pilot its new teamwork training program, TeamSTEPPS. According to the program’s website, it aims to optimize...
Request granted: Nursing homes receive additional $31.2M in relief funding
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 05, 2021
Five months after providers requested additional coronavirus aid to help operators facing financial turmoil caused by the pandemic, Connecticut officials announced the state will send another $31.2 million...
Suspended doctor who freely signed COVID vaccination and mask waivers being investigated
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 30, 2021
Workers at Connecticut long-term care facilities now find themselves in the middle of a conflict between the state and a suspended doctor accused of freely handing COVID-19 vaccine and mask exemptions...
Advisory group recommends granny cams, more infection control regs
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 11, 2021
Connecticut nursing homes could be required to increase their on-hand supply of personal protective equipment and allow residents or their families to install cameras in their rooms, if recommendations...
No fingerprints, no direct caregiving in CT nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 22, 2021
Nursing home employees who didn’t get fingerprinted as part of a background check can keep their jobs, but they haven’t been allowed to care for residents since a deadline killing a COVID-era exemption...
Operator accused of withholding employee raises worth $250,000
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 02, 2022
Connecticut lawmakers are pushing for a state investigation into a nursing home operator accused of not paying 4.5% salary increases after receiving state funding to do so.