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Southern Connecticut Hospitals Reaching Closer to Capacity for COVID-19

Connecticut continues to ramp up capacity for a surge in COVID-19 cases. The Tully Center, owned by Stamford Healthcare, and has been mothballed, is being turned into a respite care/post acute care unit for both Stamford and Greenwich. Continue Reading →

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COVID-19 Update: Positive Tests Tick Up, Greenwich Hospital Dipping into 95 “Over-Capacity Beds”

“We are now just going to our in-house ‘over capacity beds,’ which are beds and locations within the hospital that are not in the traditional bed count, but can be easily taken care of in a safe manner in the hospital campus. I have 95 of those beds available and we have just started admitting into those new units.” – Diane Kelly, Greenwich Hospital Continue Reading →

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PAULMENO: In 2019 the World Health Organization Declared 2020 The Year of the Nurse. How True.

“Nurses and other healthcare workers are operating under conditions being described as warlike.” – Stephanie Paulmeno is President of the CT Nurses Association and Chairman of The Patient is U Foundation Continue Reading →

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I Survived COVID-19: Stamford Man Shares His Story

Taylor Boynton suspects he was one of the first people in Connecticut to be tested for COVID-19. After a BBQ in Cos Cob two weeks ago he developed strange, painful symptoms including no sense of taste. But no one at the BBQ tested positive. Boynton suspects it was travels to Yonkers and New Rochelle in Westchester the previous week were the source of his infection. Continue Reading →

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