Current News

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

05/21 – Lamont Administration Offers Nursing Home Workers Pay Increase – CT NEWS JUNKIE

05/20 – Lamont backs nursing home rate increases – CT MIRROR

05/15 – Senate approves bill requiring nursing homes to disclose staffing levels – CT MIRROR

05/10 – Blair Manor bill unanimously passes Senate – MANCHESTER JOURNAL INQUIRER

05/06 – Minimum wage proposal vexes Connecticut nursing home – CT MIRROR

05/05 – Short-staffed nursing homes see drop in Medicare ratings – CT MIRROR

04/24 – 54% of middle-income seniors could need housing, care help by 2019, NIC-funded study finds – MCKNIGHT’S SENIOR LIVING

04/20 – Nursing home workers have the superior claim – MANCHESTER JOURNAL INQUIRER

04/12 – Veyo boasts improved operations, fewer patient complaints – CT MIRROR

04/12 – No work stoppage yet, but even a strike vote has its costs – CT MIRROR

03/04 – Nursing Homes Are Closing Across Rural America, Scattering Residents – NEW YORK TIMES

02/20 – Lamont’s health budget vs Connecticut hospitals – CT MIRROR

02/07 – Senate Dems offer nursing home staffing bill – CT MIRROR

01/15 – Severely mentally ill residents: A ‘perfect storm’ creates a SNF wave – MCKNIGHT’S LONG-TERM CARE NEWS

12/30 – Staffing levels, culture challenge quality of nursing home care – CT MIRROR

12/28 – Tough year for Veyo, state’s multi-million dollar Medicaid transportation broker – HARTFORD COURANT

12/17 – CMS strengthening oversight of nursing home staffing levels – MANCHESTER JOURNAL INQUIRER

12/13 – West Hartford hospital hopes to serve growing number of senior psychiatric patients – HARTFORD COURANT

12/12 – Staffing Levels, Culture Change Quality Of Nursing Home Care – CONNECTICUT HEALTH INVESTIGATIVE TEAM

12/05 – Nursing Homes Penalized For High Hospital Readmissions – CONNECTICUT HEALTH INVESTIGATIVE TEAM

08/06 – No flaws seen in home’s closing – MANCHESTER JOURNAL INQUIRER

08/04 – No voice for the voiceless: Blair Manor residents, guardians not informed of right to be heard – MANCHESTER JOURNAL INQUIRER

07/18 – Complaints Stream In Against Embattled Broker of Medical Rides; Patients Stranded, Rides Misses – HARTFORD COURANT

07/06 – Most nursing homes overstated staffing for years – NEW YORK TIMES

07/05 – Nursing home operator pioneering fresh approach to opioid recovery – MANCHESTER JOURNAL INQUIRER