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Family members of those living in long-term care facilities demand new visitation policy post-vaccination rollout MILLTOWN – Former Mayor Gloria Bradford spent 13 years as the voice of the borough. “She was the first woman mayor, very independent and strong,” her daughter Diane Salkeld said as she described her mother. Now Salkeld is the voice for her mother, who is suffering from dementia and lives in an assisted long-term care (LTC) facility. Bradford has spent the year – like so many in LTC facilities – battling isolation and separation from family and friends due to the novel co...

Get our free mobile app Without administration officials there taking questions, having dismissed the inquiry as a partisan exercise, there were no new answers. Rima Samman says that closing in on a year later, family members still need answers from the state and nursing homes as to why COVID-positive people were readmitted from hospitals back to long-term care facilities, as well as the care that was – or was not – provided at the height of the pandemic last spring. “We treat animals better than the way my brother was treated those last 48 hours,” Samman said. Richard Mollot, executi...