As coronavirus cases increase, posing heightened risks to the elderly, nursing homes will face growing scrutiny from state health inspectors. This week, DPH ordered that all nursing homes prohibit most visitors from facilities. On Friday,…
By Jodie Mozdzer Gil 7 hours ago RecommendTweet EmailPrintMore Melanie Stengel Photo. Georgina Castelon (left) and Juana Rodriguez pick up produce, including cabbage, carrots and kale after an exercise class at John S. Martinez School…
By Cara Rosner Four nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health (DPH) for various violations that jeopardized residents’ safety or caused injuries. Western Rehabilitation Care Center in Danbury was fined…
By Bonnie Phillips The state Board of Examiners for Nursing last week disciplined three nurses, including issuing a total of $1,500 in fines and placing two nurses’ licenses on probation. The advanced practical registered nurse…
By Cara Rosner Six nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health (DPH) for violations that endangered or injured residents. Apple Rehab West Haven was fined $6,960 after a resident reported…
By Sujata Srinivasan Purdue Pharma, in bankruptcy and embroiled in thousands of lawsuits for its role in the opioid crisis, paid Connecticut doctors and nurse practitioners $394,662 in 2018, a slight drop of 9% from…
By Jenifer Frank A total of 1,665 Connecticut children under age 6 had lead poisoning in 2017, a drop of almost 17% from the year before and the largest one-year decrease in five years, according…
By Carol Leonetti Dannhauser “Potentially preventable” cancer deaths plunged in Connecticut over the last decade, according to a federal study, with two rural counties, Litchfield and Windham, experiencing a nearly 49 percent decrease, the best…
By Colleen Shaddox Colleen Shaddox Photo. Gail Williams, now 60 and living in New Haven, was 15 when her mother died of a heart attack and she became her family’s caregiver. Gail Williams was 15…
By Cara Rosner Fourteen Connecticut hospitals are being penalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), losing 1% of their Medicare reimbursements this fiscal year for having high rates of hospital-acquired infections and…
By Peggy McCarthy Carl Jordan Castro Photo. For months Tania Rodriguez, 48, and her daughters Charlotte and Caroline were living in shelters. She now has a new home thanks to New Reach, a nonprofit that…
By Cara Rosner Nearly 40% of preschool-aged children nationwide have never had a vision screening, new data suggests, and there are disparities in who has been tested. During 2016 and 2017, only 63.5% of children…
By Lisa Backus The state Medical Examining Board voted Tuesday to discipline two physicians including issuing a $7,500 fine and one-year probation to a Weston doctor who prescribed opioids to six people without discussing pain…
By Bonnie Phillips The state Board of Examiners for Nursing on Wednesday disciplined four nurses for drug use and other violations. The board placed the LPN license of Ashley E. Lambert of Thompson on probation…
By Christine Woodside Christine Woodside Photo. Jamie Cantori, a research assistant at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, checks the ticks that have attached to the white cloth she dragged through the underbrush at Lord Creek…
By Cara Rosner Six nursing homes have been fined by the state for violating a resident’s privacy, verbally abusing a resident and for violations that resulted in residents’ injuries. Whitney Center in Hamden was fined…
By Cara Rosner 3 hours ago RecommendTweet EmailPrintMore Carl Jordan Castro Photo. Jessica Racco gives Oliver his two Peanut M&Ms, part of his daily “maintenance dose,” after undergoing an allergy desensitization process. For Oliver Racco,…
By Cara Rosner The number of “adverse events” occurring at Connecticut hospitals rose 7% in 2018, compared with the previous year, with a growing number of patients suffering serious injury or death associated with falls,…
By Lisa Backus Carl Jordan Castro Photo. Jesus Manuel Gomez and his son, Jeremías, in front of their Bridgeport home. While working as a dishwasher, Gomez said his work schedule was unpredictable and made it…
By Cara Rosner A hysterectomy performed on a patient based on a faulty test result, and the death of two patients after failing to receive necessary monitoring or medication, failure to immediately investigate a complaint…