Family members of those living in long-term care facilities demand new visitation policy post-vaccination rollout
MILLTOWN – Former Mayor Gloria Bradford spent 13 years as the voice of the borough.
“She was the first woman mayor, very independent and strong,” her daughter Diane Salkeld said as she described her mother.
Now Salkeld is the voice for her mother, who is suffering from dementia and lives in an assisted long-term care (LTC) facility. Bradford has spent the year – like so many in LTC facilities – battling isolation and separation from family and friends due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Salkeld, along with Family Advocate Care Experience (FACE NJ) for Seniors, a group of 1,000-plus family members of residents in LTC communities in New Jersey, is raising awareness of the life-threatening effects of isolation and demanding a new visitation policy by the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) to allow safe, in-room caregiving visits by family members immediat
History-Makers: The First Women At Texas Law
March 8, 2021
It’s International Women’s Day and at Texas Law we are reflecting on more than a century of women making their mark on our school and on the world.
Today, women make up more than 50% of law students nationally and organizations such as Texas Law’s Center for Women in Law are central to the law school experience for all students, regardless of gender identity. This kind of parity and opportunity only exists because of remarkable women who insisted on going to law school in eras when it was neither common nor socially accepted.
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Thompson Coburn LLP issued the following announcement on Feb. 25.
In honor of Black History Month, Thompson Coburn has created a free educational coloring book celebrating Gloria Bradford, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Texas School of Law. The Firm encourages everyone to download the PDF of the coloring book, “Gloria Katrina Bradford: Images from the Life and Legacy of a Texas Legal Pioneer,” and print it out for young people to color and read a firsthand account of what it was like to be one of the first African Americans in Texas to practice law.
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