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Index
■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 5
■ Week in Review: PG. 6
■ The List: PGs. 14, 16
■ Town Profile: PG. 19
■ Movers & Shakers: PG. 19
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 20
Meetings &
Conventions Guide
This week our expanded focus section looks at the
state's and region's convention and meetings
industry, including trends impacting local event
planners. PG. 11
Filling Spaces
Connecticut's apartment market, its strongest
since the late 1980s, continues to experience tight
vacancy despite new construction/conversions
that are slowing the pace at which landlords can
lift rents. PG. 3
Building
Bioscience
A N H B J S E R I E S O N C T ' S B I O S C I E N C E S E C T O R
Heart
Preserver
Researchers work
at Lipid Genomics'
lab in Farmington,
near UConn
Health's campus.
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BJ's series on Connecticut's bioscience
industry continues this week with
a look at Farmington startup Lipid
Genomics, which is developing a therapeutic
remedy for people who have good levels of
the healthy HDL cholesterol, but are still at
risk of heart attacks or heart disease due to
a genetic variation. Company founder, Anna-
belle Rodriguez, brought her research to
UConn Health from the John Hopkins Univer-
sity School of Medicine because of the state's
bioscience investment.
PG. 9
Lipid Genomics searches
for therapeutic cure
to genetic heart defect
Latest bankruptcies
highlight nursing homes'
continued struggles
By Matt Pilon
mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com
F
ollowing a wave of Connecticut nursing
home bankruptcies and receiverships
earlier this decade, the sector's finan-
cial woes don't appear to be easing.
Industry representatives say stagnant
Medicaid rates and a shrinking number of
nursing-home residents — partially fueled
by state policy — remain key drivers in the
steady decline of both nursing homes and
licensed beds in Connecticut.
Financial challenges have already shut-
tered at least two nursing homes this year, and
last week West Hartford's Hebrew Health Care
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
"The underlying issues remain present over
Continued on page 14
West Hartford's
Hebrew Health
Care is looking to
transfer its
nursing home to
another operator.
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