Father of Kris Mailloux, mentally ill man who died in encounter with Leominster police in 2018, sues city, claims DA’s investigation was a ‘charade’
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
Kris Mailloux, pictured here, was a man who suffered multiple mental disorders and died in an encounter with Leominster police three years ago at age 39. His father is now suing the city and the responding officers, claiming authorities used unreasonable and lethal force on his son. (Worcester federal court)
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The father of a man who suffered multiple mental disorders and died in an encounter with police three years ago is suing the city of Leominster, claiming authorities used unreasonable and lethal force on his son.
Cards For Caring Initiative sees over 700 cards for isolated aging community in North Central Mass.
Congressman Jim McGovern signs some of the 700 cards for caring sent out this year in a new initiative of the Montachusett Home Care Corporation. Contributed photo
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Modified: 1/3/2021 3:43:58 PM
LEOMINSTER Montachusett Home Care Corporation (MHCC) announced that the inaugural launch of the Cards for Caring saw over 700 holiday cards donated to older adults living in isolation during the holiday season.
This successful campaign was done in collaboration with Congresswoman Lori Trahan and Congressman Jim McGovern.
“Through our partnership with Montachusett Home Care and Congressman McGovern, we were able to collect more than 700 cards for older adults in our community experiencing isolation because of the pandemic. It’s my hope that these kind words will bring comfort to those who are unable to spend the holidays with their loved ones,” Congresswoman Trahan
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Emily Palumbo said she didn’t set out to make history by getting the first COVID-19 vaccine in North Central Massachusetts.
“I had to make (my appointment) early because my daughter is getting braces today,” Palumbo said, laughing.
But as a registered nurse in the emergency department at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital s Leominster campus, Palumbo said it was time to move forward.
“It’s been a long nine months in the emergency department,” Palumbo said. “I’m hoping we can move forward and do what’s best for the patients and the community.”
Palumbo was the first of a stream of front-line caregivers at the Leominster hospital to get vaccinated Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, as nurses, doctors, and other workers with whom COVID-19 patients are in contact filed into a conference room every 10 minutes to receive the first of two doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
First doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered to health care workers in Worcester
WORCESTER It’s been “a rough nine months” in the two COVID-19 intensive care units for Fredrik Oestberg, a nurse educator at UMass Memorial Medical Center University campus.
But Oestberg had reason to be hopeful on Thursday, as he was first in line to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’m hoping by getting the shot and by more and more people getting the shot, this will be the beginning of the end,” Oestberg said. “I think we all want to get back to normal again, and I think that this will be the thing that will help us get there.”
UMass Memorial Health Care administers first COVID vaccine to emergency room nurse Emily Palumbo in Clinton
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
UMass Memorial Health administered its first coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, providing it to an emergency room nurse at a hospital in Clinton.
The health care provided shared a number of photos on Twitter of ER nurse Emily Palumbo at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital receiving the vaccine.
ER Nurse Emily Palumbo was the first caregiver at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.@umassmemorialpic.twitter.com/qQMeKZh4Si UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital (@haclintonhosp) December 16, 2020
UMass Memorial in Worcester received Pfizer’s vaccine at around 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Vaccinations at that facility are expected to begin on Thursday.