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Health systems are seeing contract labor costs decline significantly due to COVID-19, but are struggling to retain their nursing staff.

Day Kimball Healthcare, a Putnam, Conn.-based system, will receive $10 million in local government payments to help stabilize operations and aid clinical development.

Day Kimball Healthcare, based in Putnam, Conn., is looking for a partner after a failed merger deal. Cash on hand dropped from 61.7 days to 41.7.

I urge Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders to put CT on the path to steadily — if modestly at first — grow our Medicaid rates.

Go, go, Power Rangers! And that’s what they did during the boys volleyball All-Star best-of-5 game last Saturday at the Agape Gymnasium.

STORRS — In an effort to improve the healthcare system in rural Connecticut, State Comptroller Sean Scanlon hosted a Rural Healthcare Summit at the University of Connecticut on Monday.

Getting health care in rural Connecticut isn’t always easy, especially because of transportation, staffing and revenue issues, according to officials who gathered at UConn Monday to discuss barriers to care.

ELLSWORTH — Hancock County Sheriff’s deputies broke up an underage drinking party at a property off Route 1 in Hancock April 22.

Theres an air of excitement permeating around the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluffs J. Thomas May Field House these days, but theres a pretty good reason for that.

ELLSWORTH — Hancock County Sheriff’s Detective Dylan Hall helped the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with an investigation April 12. As a result, 10 grams of fentanyl was seized, Hall said.