Avery Heights News Today

Edith Cecilia ‘Edie’ (Abrahamson) Sullivan, 85, of Hartford, died peacefully on Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at the Avery Heights nursing facility after a long struggle with dementia. Edie was born April 10, 1935 in Dorchester, MA. She was the daughter of the late Knut and Anna Cecelia (Carlsen) Abrahamson who emigrated to the U.S. from […]

FRIEDLI, R. Joan R. Joan (Fowler) Friedli, 79, of Newington, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, (April 24, 2005). She was the beloved wife of the late William M. Friedli. She was pre-deceased by her parents, Robert O. and Ruth G. Fowler. Born in Hartford, she was a Newington resident for over 50 […]

In Connecticut, our elders are in jeopardy of losing their homes in long term care. The community must come together and support our elderly.

The closure of Hughes Health & Rehabilitation, a 5-star facility, is partly due to a shift to home and community-based care, its owner said.

For the last six years, Jeannette Crowe has called the Hughes Health and Rehabilitation Center home. The 84-year-old with multiple sclerosis expected to die at the five-star facility, surrounded by the staff that has become like family.  But all that changed last month, when Sam Flaxman — the grandson of the man who bought the West Hartford building in 1961 and turned it into a 170-bed long-term care home — walked into a meeting with the 81 residents still living at Hughes to make a stunnin...

The closure of Hughes Health and Rehabilitation Center is in part a consequence of a statewide shift to home and community-based services and in part due to declining occupancy and swelling costs.

The closure of Hughes Health & Rehabilitation, a 5-star facility, is partly due to a shift to home and community-based care, its owner said.

Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly thought they eliminated the threat of a major nursing home strike last spring when they pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into an industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic. But the risk of Connecticut’s first nursing home strike since 2012 — albeit a small one — reared its head Tuesday when the state’s largest health care workers union put five homes on notice for a work stoppage on April 22.

More than 400 workers are prepared to strike April 22. Contract negotiations between union leaders and facility operators and owners are ongoing.

Five nursing home facilities have been issued strike notices by members of the New England Health Care Employees Union who allege unfair labor practices across the facilities.