COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics
While many churches across the U.S. have been waiting to open their doors to their entire congregation for worship during the pandemic, they are taking on a new role: vaccination clinics. In Jackson, Mississippi, St. Dominic Hospital is working with local churches to make sure more people have…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 7 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2022 proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS). CMS will accept comments on this rule through June 7.
Here are the stories of how hospitals and health systems are vaccinating a nation through creativity, collaboration and compassion.
Nearly 80% of prekindergarten through 12th grade teachers, school staff and child care workers had received at least their first COVID-19 shot by April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday.
Leaders from Henry Ford Health System and the Islamic Center of America discuss their collaboration to increase vaccinations in the Muslim community around Detroit, and the cultural and logistical factors they considered to make their effort successful.
Throughout the COVID-19 hospitals and health systems have been forging new partnerships with stakeholders to ensure ongoing care for their patients, health care workers and communities.
UCLA Health is rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program looking at clinical risk and using a social vulnerability model and, at the same time, reassuring people about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine continued to protect 33 healthy adults six months after receiving the second dose, according to an ongoing clinical trial examining the vaccine’s durability, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The AHA unveiled several new resources to aid hospitals’ and health systems’ efforts to increase the public’s confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.
All U.S. adults will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, President Biden announced. That’s a couple weeks sooner than the May 1 target he announced last month.