Barrett said his members have been “sounding an alarm bell” to the General Assembly and Lamont's office for the “urgent need for a significant increase in funding" to address decades of underfunding in Medicaid payments and the increased costs from the pandemic.
Union sends strike notices to 33 Connecticut nursing homes
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“We would have in Connecticut a very different type of public health emergency on our hands if we were to have a large scale labor action,” Barrett said during a meeting of the state's Nursing Home Financial Advisory Committee.
Nursing home industry fears impact of 52 possible strikes
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