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I’M MI
I’M MIE HYDECK.
I’M MIE HYDECK.
STRAIGHT AHEAD THIS
I’M MIE HYDECK.
STRAIGHT AHEAD THIS
SUNDAY MORNING...
STRAIGHT AHEAD THIS
SUNDAY MORNING...
PREVENTING
SUNDAY MORNING...
PREVENTING
PICKETI
.
PICKETI
MG, WELCOME TO
"FA T FACTS."
STRA AHEAD THIS SUNDAY
STRA AHEAD THIS SUNDAY
MORNIN PREVENTING TICK LINES
IN NURSING HOMES, POMP AND
CIRMSEETNS AND THE
CIRMSEETNS AND THE
ODDS ARE FEWER THAN ONE IN A
MILLN. E ADVISORIES ARE IF YOU D
DEVELOUA SYMPTOMS,
SHORTNS OF BREATH, REACH OUT
SHORTNS OF BREATH, REACH OUT
AND CONTACT YOUR PROVIDER.
>> T STA FOLLOWS CDC
SUGGE TU USING THE
SUGGE TU USING THE
ONE-S JOHNSON&JOHON VACCINE
AFTER SIX WOMEN SUFFERED BLOOD
CLO, DIED A. TOTAL OF 7
MILLI J&J SHOTS SO FAR.
MILLI J&J SHOTS SO FAR.
WE WL DIG DEEPER LATER IN THE
SHO
PEOP THAT GOT THE PFIZER
VACCI W NEED A BOOSTER
SHOT.T CEO SAID IT’S POSSIBLE TH
SHOT.T CEO SAID IT’S POSSIBLE TH
PEOPLE NEED A SHOT EVERY
YEAR SORT OF LIKE WE GET THE FLU
SHOT.
EAR T MONTH, PFIZER SAID
ITS CLINICAL TRIALS SHOW THE
VACNEO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
VACNEO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
SIXON AFTER THE SECOND
DOSE
THE LATER YOU DO IT, THE MORE
THE LATER YOU DO IT, THE MORE
LIKY YOU WILL HAVE THAT
GRADUA OUTSIDE, THE LATER
YOUO IT, THE HIGHER THE
VACCATRA WE HAVE.
VACCATRA WE HAVE.
>> HOPE FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS THIS
WEEK FR THE GOVERNOR SUGGESTS
HAVIN THEM IN JUNE INSTEAD OF
MAY AN OUTSIDE, THERE STILL
MAY AN OUTSIDE, THERE STILL
HAVE BN PLENTY OF APPOINTMENTS
AVAIL AND RECENT SHOOTING
DEAT OF A 3-YEAR-OLD A
DEAT OF A 3-YEAR-OLD A
16-AR HAVE SHAKEN
EE CALLING FOR RESOURCES
AND TH WANT THE MONEY TO GO TO
COMMIT RATR AN POLICE
COMMIT RATR AN POLICE
AND AGENCIES.
>> WHAT WE SEE IT’S SLOW MASS
KILN AND THIS STATE IS DOING
KILN AND THIS STATE IS DOING
ALMOST NOTHING ABOUT IT.
>> E A HOPING TO GET SOME
PRESID BIDEN SET ASIDE AND
CONNTIS RELIGIOUS
CONNTIS RELIGIOUS
EXEMPS CLEARED ANOTHER
HURD WINNING APPROVAL FROM THE
APPIASCOMMITTEE.
T REPORT FROM THE OFFICE OF
FISC ANALYSIS SAYS IT WILL
FISC ANALYSIS SAYS IT WILL
COST THE HEALTH DEPARTNT ABOUT
$91 MILLION TO BUY THE VACCINE.
$91 MILLION TO BUY THE VACCINE.
OPPON ARGUE IT COULD MAKE
HIGR.>>THER IS NO ARGUMENT WH IT
COM THE NUMBERS AND NURSING
HOM, THEY ARE THE HARDEST HIT
DURTH PANDEMIC.
DURTH PANDEMIC.
T DEATH, ISOLATION AND FARE
GRIPP SO MANY.
NOW T PEOPLE THAT PROTECT OUR
SENIOR W LIVE THERE MAY BE
HEADED TICKET LINE.
THEY COULD SEE THE STAFF GO ON
THEY COULD SEE THE STAFF GO ON
STRIKE SO IF THEY DON’T GET
MORE HELP FROM THE STATE.
SO WHA EXACTLY DO THEY WANT?
JOININE TO EXPLAIN IS THE
PRENT CEO OF CONNECTICUT
ASSTI HEALTHCARE
FACITI
M BARRETT, THANK FOR JOINING
US.
GOOD MORNINGMIKE.
>> WE HAVE SEEN FRONT LINE
HEALTH WORKERS PROTEST IN
FRO OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
FRO OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
HEA
AMO THE DEMANDS, THEY CENTER
AROU BENEFS AND
COMPSA.
THESE NURSING HOMES ARE PRIVATE
COMNI
RIG?
HOW W THE STATE FACTOR INTO
HOW W THE STATE FACTOR INTO
THIS SITUATION?
>> THEY ARE PVA COMPANIES,
WHE ’R FOR PROFIT OR
NON- NURSING HOMES.
BUT T STATE FACTORS IN
SIGCA.
NURSINS ARE LIKE NO OTHER
PART OF HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
PART OF HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
THEY RELY ALMOST ENTIRELY FOR
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CARE FOR
BENIT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE FOR
MOST PROGRAMS.
MOST PROGRAMS.
SO NURSING HOMES ARE IN N
SION TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL
SION TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL
INCA IN SUPPORT TO THE
GOVNM
TO THEIR CREDIT THE EMPLOYEE
UNIORECOGNIZES THAT, THAT’S
UNIORECOGNIZES THAT, THAT’S
WHY YOU SEE THEM PROTESTI AND
MAKE T TEST DIRECTLY TO THE
STA GOVERNMENT.
WHE THAT BE THE DEPARTMENT
WHE THAT BE THE DEPARTMENT
OFPUBLIC HEALTH OR SOCIAL
SERVIC AND MOST RYANLY BEFORE
THE STATE’S OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT
THE STATE’S OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT
WHI I REFERRED TO AS THE
GOVE OFFICE.
>> THEY RELEASED A $500 TO STAFF
AND PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND
AND PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND
OTHER AS WELL.
DOES THAT MAKE ANY IMPACT?
>> WELL, THAT’S BEEN A
>> WELL, THAT’S BEEN A
CONTUA OF A PARTNERSHIP
WITH GOVE LaMONT AT THE
BEGINN OF THE EMERGENCY PLAST
MARCH.
THERE HAS BEEN SUBSTANTI
PO PROVI OVER THE YEARS
PO PROVI OVER THE YEARS
AND REALLY IT’S BEEN A LIFELINE.
IT’S JUST SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH.
AS LOOK TO THE OTHER SIDE OF
THIS PANDEMIC AND THE VACCINE
THIS PANDEMIC AND THE VACCINE
MADIT POSSIBLE, WE FIND IT
WHERE OCCUPANCY IS DOWN AS MUCH
AS 15%.
NURSI HOMES ARE ABOUT 72%
OCCUPI PRE PANDEMIC, THEY
OCCUPI PRE PANDEMIC, THEY
WERE ALMOST 90% OCCUPIED.
THE PERCENTAGE OF MEDICAID USAGE
IN NURSING HOMES PRE MAKE WAS
73%.
NOW I 83%.
SO THE VERY SUPPORT OF THE
GOVENT THAT WE NEED IS
EXACERD BY THE PANDEMIC.
WHILE THE GOVERNOR’S SUPPT HAS
WHILE THE GOVERNOR’S SUPPT HAS
BEEN A LIFELINE AND WE WOULD
HEPAC WERE IT NOT
THE UNDERLYING ST ORD AND IT
DOESN G ANYWHERE NEAR TO
ADDREG T DEMANDS AND
REQUE OUR EMPLOYEES TO THE
REPUBN EMPY UNION.
>> YOU SAID EARLIER, THIS IS A
COMPLE WAY, THE FINANCIAL
HEAH OF THE LONG-CARE
FACIT DISCUSSED
EVERYW FROM WE’LL TO MAIN
STREETTH A PUBLICLY TRADED.
SHODN SOME OF THE STAKE
HOL B HELPING IN THIS
CRISIS>> NO, I DON’T THINK SO, I
THIS SQUARELY ON THE DOORSTEP OF
THE GOVERNMENT.
THE GOVERNMENT ASKS FOR SUPPORT.
IT’S INCUMBE ON THEM TO
PROVE T RESOURCES THAT ARE
ESSENT TO DELIVERING HIGH
QUATY CARE AND SO THE ISSUES
FOR LARGE MULTI-STATE
CORRAS IN-STATE NURSING
FACITI FOR PROFIT,
NONROAR REALLY THE
SAME
AMOUNT OF RESOURCES PROVIDED
TO ECT NURSING HOMES IS
NOT SIMILARLY EXPERIENCED AROUND
THE COUNTRY.
IT’S JUST IN POSITION AND A
SUBAN INVESTNT IS JUST
REQRE GOING FORWARD TO
ADDRE THE UNDERLYING ISSUES
WE’VE DISCUSSED, UNDER FUNDING.
WE CAN’T MAKE A STEP TOWARDS
ADDREG THESE REASONABLE
REQUTS FROM OUR EMPLOYEES
WIT T RESOURCES TO DO SO
SO I DON’T THK THAT’S AN ISSUE
OF FOR PROFIT OR NON-PROFITS OR
CORRA OR NURSING HOME
BIL.
ALL E EXPERIENCING THE SAME
ISSU WH UNDER FUNDING.
>> S WHAT WILL IT TAKE BOTTOM
LIN AVOID A STRIKE?
THIS COULD BE A LOT OF EMPLOYEES
ON T T LINES AND CONCERNS
OF MO A DADS AND
GRARE THAT ARE IN SOME OF
THE FACILITIES?
>> NEED TO AVOID IT AT ALL
COST
I CAN’T UNDER SCORE HOW IT IS
FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS
ESPEAL SOME 4500 WORKERS
WERE WALK OFF THE JOB.
IT REPRESENTS ABOUT 30% OF THE
OCCUED BEDS RIGHT NOW AND OVER
50 HOMES AS YOU’VE STATED AND
THIS IS A POPULATI THAT HAS
BEEN TRAUMATIZED ALRDY BY THIS
E SE VISITOR RESTRICTIONS
THAT HE IN PLACE AND NOW
RELAX BUT THEY HAVE BEEN IN
PLA FOR ALMOST A YEAR.
SEPAT NURSING HOME RESIDENTS
FOR T LOVED ONES.
THESE EMPLOYEES, THEY HAVE DONE
HERO W AND HAVE STOOD IN
THE PLACE WHERE FAMILIES COULD
BE IN THE HOME.
IF THEWE TO SEPARATED
FR CARE GIVERS IN THIS
ENVMEI CAN’T IMAGINE
UNCTI HARM THAT WOULD
CAU NURSING HOME RESIDENTS.
WE REALLY ARE URGING EVERYBODY
TO STAY AT THE BARGAINING TABLE
ANDRY TO ADDRESS THESE
CONCNS WEE ASKING ALL
PARTS, EMPLOYEES, UNIONS,
THE PROVIDERS, THE STATE ENGAGED
IN T APRESENTATION PROCESS TO
STAY ENGAGED WITH THE OFFICE OF
GOVNO LaMONT AND LEGISLATIVE
LEADEWEEED TO COME ONE A SOLUTIO
A VERY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN
APPPRS.
WE NEED TO IDENTIFY WHATEVER
FEDALRESOURCES THAT CAN BE
MADE AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS THESE
ISS
WE NEED TO STAY ENGAGED.
THAT’W WE CAN AVOID THIS
CATARO