Report finds failures at Connecticut nursing homes as strikes loom
Dave Collins
The report also accuses nursing home owners of failing to follow federal guidance on the use of protective equipment and having inadequate infection control, testing and quarantine procedures during the pandemic. It alleges state officials haven t done enough to oversee nursing homes and hold them accountable.
The report, titled We Were Abandoned: How Connecticut Failed Nursing Home Workers and Residents During The COVID-19 Pandemic, was written by Yale Law School students for the Service Employees International Union s District 1199 New England, which represents about 5,000 nursing home workers in Connecticut. Students in Yale s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic surveyed employees and reviewed state regulatory documents for the report.
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Connecticut offering $280M to nursing homes to avoid strikes
DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Connecticut officials on Monday proposed an additional $280 million in funding for nursing homes in an effort to avoid strikes by nearly 4,000 health workers that are set to begin Friday if negotiations fail.
Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont s budget director, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Melissa McCaw, sent letters to labor union and industry officials outlining the proposed funding, which includes $149.5 million for 4.5% wage increases for nurses, aides and other nursing home workers in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years.
“We’ve got an aggressive proposal on the table because there’s nothing more important than taking care of our seniors, and I hope to God the nurses are there to do it, Lamont said Monday.
As negotiations sputter, nursing homes workers in Connecticut edge closer to a strike. A walkout affecting 1,000 nursing home residents could come this week. Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant
With a potentially traumatic nursing home strike looming in Connecticut this week, Gov. Ned Lamont is offering $280 million in federal and state assistance to boost wages and support struggling privately owned facilities in the state.
Lamont’s offer comes after days of fruitless negotiations between the workers and nursing home owners and as the union representing thousands of health care employees in Connecticut authorized a strike at six additional nursing homes Monday, bringing the total number of long-term care facilities affected by the potential walkout to 39.
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Mt. San Rafael Hospital thwarted a ransomware attack on one of its sister facilities earlier this year before anything could be compromised. The organization is still working through the details of the hack, says CIO Michael Archuleta, whose hospital is part of the BridgeCare Health Network, which includes five hospitals in Colorado.
“It could have been a bad issue if we didn’t have the automation and intelligence to catch and stop it,” says Archuleta.
The vast majority of ransomware stems from a malicious email attachment that employees open and unwittingly propagate across a network. Attackers can use this exploit to lock up systems and demand payment to release them.