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UVA Earn While You Learn Program Boosts Post-pandemic Staffing
University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center | Charlottesville, Virginia
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Patient Forward: A multidisciplinary team invites patients and their families to a weekly thoracic oncology clinic at Elkhart General Hospital.
Leaders from radiology and hospital administration involved in lung cancer screening and treatment at Indiana's Elkhart General Hospital will share how they partnered to create a multidisciplinary
Study: Rural hospital mergers linked to better patient outcomes
In a study reported in JAMA Network Open, rural hospital mergers were associated with lower mortality for patients admitted to the hospital for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and pneumonia.
As Mardi Gras Nears, New Orleans Hospital Addresses Rise in Pediatric COVID-19 Cases
Hospital leaders say that while the omicron surge has declined, the death toll among children in Louisiana has risen to 21 in February.
Central Vermont Medical Center | Vermont
Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) erves a population of 66,000 and employs nearly 1,400 people in one of the most rural regions of the country. The not-for-profit community health care provider treats more than 25,000 patients through its Emergency Department, provides care to over 164,000 Vermonters in its 27 outpatient facilities, and performs over 3,000 outpatient surgeries annually.
Study estimates COVID-19 vaccines averted 10.3 million hospitalizations
The U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program has helped avert an estimated 35.9 million infections, 10.3 million hospitalizations and 1.1 million deaths as of Nov. 30, according to an analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund.
Benefits to Communities
The mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and type of ownership, is to care for their patients and communities. In addition to providing financial assistance to those in need, hospitals have programs that are responsive to their community’s needs. These community benefits include help with housing, accessing healthy food, educational programs, health screenings, transportation to ensure patients arrive at needed medical appointments, vaccination clinics and other programs to address the many other needs that affect the community’s health and well-being.
A COVID-19 Vaccine Denier Urges Others to Get the Shot
Despite data on the large numbers of people who have suffered and even died from COVID-19, many still don’t fear the virus and remain unvaccinated. That was the case of an unvaccinated man in New Hampshire until COVID-19 hospitalized him at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and nearly took his life. Today, he is in good health and vaccinated.
States asked to prepare for more COVID-19; public can order 4 free at-home tests
The Department of Health and Human Services today recommended governors take certain actions to prepare for a potential further increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations this winter, and has pre-positioned N-95 masks, gloves, gowns and ventilators at strategic locations should states need them.
CMS reminds hospitals how to request quality measurement program exceptions, reviews COVID-19 measure suppressions
Hospitals experiencing an extraordinary circumstance beyond their control affecting their ability to submit data or their performance may continue to request an exception to reporting required quality data, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reminded hospitals in a notice