By: Lisa Chedekel Medicare patients had more than 600,000 hospital stays in 2012 that lasted three nights or more but did not qualify them for follow-up nursing home care, according to a new report by…
By: Susan Campbell If you’re 65 and living in Connecticut, you can expect – on average – roughly 16 more years of good health, according to a new federal study. In fact, the state ranks…
Been hooked on Heinz ketchup? Well you might like store-brand ketchup just as much and you will save about one third on the price. That is the result of a Consumer Reports taste test of…
About 370,000 Ford Motor company cars are being recalled due to the possibility of loss of steering. The cars include model year 2005 to 2011 Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car…
By: Kate Farrish A Westport surgery center where rusty equipment and a broken fire alarm system were found by inspectors earlier this year has been placed on probation for two years and fined $7,500 by…
Telemarketers behind an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme used to con nearly $5 million from elderly consumers have been banned from selling precious metals under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement resolves FTC…
By: Lisa Chedekel At the Governor’s House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Simsbury, 17 of the nursing home’s 73 beds sat empty this spring – a 23-percent vacancy rate that would have been unlikely five…
By: Karen Schmidt When Connecticut’s new kindergarten class starts school in a few weeks, as many as a third of the children from the state’s poorest communities will be walking into their first classroom…
By: Kate Farrish A West Hartford nursing home has been fined $1,160 in connection with a March incident in which one resident had a violent outburst after being accused of sexual assaulting another resident. The…
By: Lisa Chedekel Twenty-four of Connecticut’s 31 hospitals will face Medicare penalties in the fiscal year starting in October, in the second round of the federal government’s push to reduce the number of patients readmitted…
“Close the Back Door” by A.C. THOMPSON, ProPublica and JONATHAN JONES, special to ProPublica in collaboration with Inside Room 101 at Emerald Hills, a covert campaign was under way in the fall of 2008. Potentially…
“A Sinking Ship” by A.C. THOMPSON, ProPublica and JONATHAN JONES, special to ProPublica On Sept. 30, 2008, an employee at the Emerald Hills assisted living facility in Auburn, Calif., made an entry in a company…
“They’re Not Treating Mom Well” by A.C. THOMPSON, ProPublica and JONATHAN JONES, special to ProPublica, in collaboration with When the ambulance crew arrived, about 8:20 p.m., Joan Boice was in the TV lounge, face-down on…
“The Emerald City” by A.C. THOMPSON, ProPublica and JONATHAN JONES, special to ProPublica in collaboration with Joan Boice needed help. Lots of it. Her physician had tallied the damage: Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis,…
At J.C. Penney stores around the country workers have been busy for months boosting the prices of all their merchandise by as much as 100 percent. Why? So they can then give their shoppers discounts…
By: Susan Campbell | August 6, 2013 When it comes to alcohol advertisements, we could use an agreement similar to the one we have with Big Tobacco. But let’s put some punch behind it. Children…
Scammers promising “free” medical alert devices have been contacting residents across the state, and consumers need to be take note and spread the word, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein and Attorney…
A federal jury has awarded a Oregon woman $18.6 million after she spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax to correct false information on her credit report which damaged her ability to obtain loans….
The U.S. Department of Transportation has fined Southwest Airlines $200,000 for advertising cheap rates that it failed to provide. The fine, according, involved its “Luv A Fare Sale” from earlier this year when the airline…
By: Karen Schmidt Low-income mothers in New Haven who can’t afford enough diapers to keep their babies clean and dry are more likely to report trouble coping with stress, depression or trauma, according to a…