Besides nurse’s husband sues health care company, alleging it ignored employees’ safety concerns

The husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, alleging her employer repeatedly ignored workers’ safety concerns about treating dangerous patients.

Ronald Grayson sued Elara Caring, its affiliated companies and others over the killing of his wife, Joyce Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six who was found dead in the basement of a halfway house in Willimantic on Oct. 28. She was strangled and suffered multiple blunt force injuries, authorities said. Elara Caring, based in Dallas, Texas, denies the allegations.

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Mass. AG Campbell talks collapse of Steward Health Care, proposed settlement with Hoosic River polluter, campus arrests

This week, a for-profit Texas-based healthcare company under investigation by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell filed for bankruptcy. Campbell alleges Steward Health Care’s business model was designed to funnel money from the commonwealth’s health care system to its management and investors through debt-laden hospitals built to fail. Earlier this month, the first-term Democrat also issued a proposed settlement decree with a Berkshire County company that allegedly polluted the Hoosic River from an Adams facility. Campbell is also reacting to the mass arrests on college campuses during demonstrations against Israel’s bloody war in Gaza. She spoke with WAMC Berkshire Bureau