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NORWICH, CT (WFSB) - Nurses at Backus Hospital held an informational picket on Thursday morning to raise concerns about a growing patient care crisis. The demonstration, organized by a union ...
Connecticut averted a major walkout by nursing home workers last week, but nurses and doctors across the region are ...
Unionized nurses are holding an informational picket Thursday morning in response to what they call a “deteriorating” patient care crisis. The job action comes amid ongoing contract talks. On Thursday ...
Nurses at Backus Hospital in Norwich are raising the alarm about staff to patient ratios and mandatory overtime as their ...
Nurses at Backus Hospital in Norwich said they were sounding a “code red.” They claim patient care is deteriorating. On ...
Sherri Dayton, a nurse at Backus Hospital and president of the Backus Federation of Nurses, addressed the crowd outside the hospital Tuesday. Credit: Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org This story was ...
Norwich — Backus Hospital’s unionized nurses picketed along Washington Street in front of the hospital early Thursday, the writing on their makeshift placards targeting Hartford HealthCare ...
NORWICH — William W. Backus Hospital will need to make changes to how staff communicate with deaf individuals, including designating a civil rights coordinator, in order to resolve a federal ...
The next expansion for Backus Hospital will help it provide quality care at all times of day. The hospital is expanding its radiology department, visible from the outside between the Emergency Room ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Backus Hospital has been recognized as one of the “high-performing” hospitals in the state by U.S. News & World Report for maternity care, placing the hospital ...