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Patients will suffer with bankrupt health care firm’s closure of Massachusetts hospitals, staff say

admin8 months ago012 mins

AYER, Mass. — When Christina Hernon was 5, her throat swelled shut from an infection and her mother rushed her to a local Massachusetts hospital in the dead of night. She couldn’t breathe, suffered a seizure and was near death when a doctor saved her by inserting a tube down her throat. Hernon is now…

‘Us against them’: Workers cite racial divide on front line of long-term-care fight against COVID-19

admin5 years ago028 mins

VCU Prof. Utsey: Long-term care providers face unique challenges While protests over police treatment of Blacks raged in Richmond in early June, Cheryl said she “felt like an invisible person” in management meetings at Morningside of Bellgrade, an assisted living facility in Chesterfield County that had been ravaged by a COVID-19 outbreak during the spring….