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Nursing Homes Fined Following Lapses In Care

Five Connecticut nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with incidents of inadequate staffing and injuries to patients that included cuts and a broken leg. On Oct.

Military Has Chance To Change Sexual Trauma Culture

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Most CT Hospitals Face Medicare Penalties For Quality Measures

More than two-thirds of Connecticut hospitals will face Medicare penalties for lagging clinical-care measures in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, with smaller hospitals including Johnson Memorial, Windham and New Milford losing the highest percentage of reimbursement.

Four Nursing Homes Fined

Four Connecticut nursing homes have been fined more than $1,000 each in connection with incidents involving residents who sustained dramatic weight loss, dehydration, cuts and broken bones. Maefair Health Care Center of Trumbull was fined $1,300 and was cited in connection with a case involving a resident with dementia who fell to the floor from a wheelchair on July 27.

Middle-Age “Senior Moments’’ Just Part Of Aging

Everyone occasionally struggles to remember a name, blanks out on an appointment or forgets why they walked into the other room. But somewhere around age 40, those “senior moments” start to take on a new seriousness.