Health Care
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut, a local non-profit organization, has expanded its veterans suicide prevention program in Hartford County.
The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention grant is the federal program that allowed them to expand and meet the needs of veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country.
With an additional grant of $212,000, the organization secured a total of $750,000.
Hartford, CT – Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced $1 million in new federal funding to expand the Harriott Community Healthcare Academy, supporting efforts to train new care workers as Connecticut faces a severe healthcare worker shortage.
Members of Connecticut’s Congressional delegation are pushing legislation that would reinstate the 2024 federal minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes.
The rule was repealed last December by the Trump Administration.
Having the federal minimum staffing requirements would enhance the quality of care for nursing home patients, said U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the lead sponsor of the bill.
Connecticut lawmakers and caregivers are speaking out after a New York Times investigation found that the Trump administration’s repeal of federal nursing home staffing rules may have been influenced behind-the-scenes by campaign contributions from industry executives who opposed it.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) voted for the Democrat-led bill to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years, lowering costs for 20 million Americans, including more than 100,000 residents in Connecticut.
MANCHESTER, CT — After years of mounting losses and uncertainty over their survival, Manchester Memorial Hospital and its Rockville campus entered a new chapter Monday as Hartford HealthCare formally marked its takeover of the two community hospitals.
East Hartford, CT – Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) condemned Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement gutting the childhood vaccine schedule, changing the number of recommended vaccinations from 17 to 11.
East Hartford, CT – Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after the Trump Administration implemented an abortion ban at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), even restricting care in cases of rape and incest.