Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 2, 2021
Via: Waste360This past week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released updated guidance on safety in the workplace related to COVID-19. This comes on the heels of President Joe Biden’s executive order on workplace safety. The Biden administration has hit […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 1, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsA divide between “haves” and “have-nots” is emerging as older adults across the country struggle to get covid-19 vaccines. Seniors with family members or friends to help them are getting vaccine appointments, even if it takes days to secure them. […]
Health & Insurance, Public Institutions, Public Works, Social Services
January 29, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsIn America’s health care system, dominated by hospital chain leviathans, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower prices than most and still flourishes […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 28, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsLate last month, before President Joe Biden took office and proposed his pandemic relief plan, Congress passed a nearly 5,600-page legislative package that provided some pandemic relief along with its more general allocations to fund the government in 2021. While […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 25, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering covid-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 22, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsOver a month into a massive vaccination program, most older Americans report they don’t know where or when they can get inoculated for covid-19, according to a poll released Friday. Nearly 6 in 10 people 65 and older who have […]
Social Security, Social Services
January 21, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsAnita Baron first noticed something was wrong in August 2018, when she began to drool. Her dentist chalked it up to a problem with her jaw. Then her speech became slurred. She managed to keep her company, which offers financing […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 13, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsLast week, after finishing inoculations of some front-line hospital staff, Jupiter Medical Center was left with 40 doses of precious covid vaccine. So, officials offered shots to the South Florida hospital’s board of directors and their spouses over age 65. […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 11, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsKeely Connolly thought she would be safe once the ambulance arrived at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center in Kansas. She was having difficulty breathing because she’d had to miss a kidney dialysis treatment a few days earlier for lack of child […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 4, 2021
Via: StateScoopWith every state left to manage its own distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, public health agencies across the country are taking individual approaches to rolling out the injections. But in states where vaccinations are even further decentralized, like Florida, some counties […]
Basic Services, Emergency Services, Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 22, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsMost Americans tell pollsters they’re worried about being able to afford an unexpected medical bill. Late Monday, Congress passed a bill to allay some of those fears. The measure is included in a nearly 5,600-page package providing coronavirus economic relief […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 21, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsA year ago, while many Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuhan, China, were battling a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia with no known cause. Chinese doctors began to fear they were witnessing the return […]
Basic Services, Civil Service, Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 21, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsIncoming Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signaled he won’t continue a statewide mask mandate in place since July, though he said he plans to wear a mask himself and get vaccinated against COVID-19. If Gianforte, a Republican, reverses outgoing Democratic Gov. […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 14, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsIf there’s such a thing as a date with destiny, it’s marked on Dr. Taison Bell’s calendar. At noon Tuesday, Bell, a critical care physician, is scheduled to be one of the first health care workers at the University of […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 11, 2020
Via: CNBC HealthcareThe Food and Drug Administration is “rapidly” working toward clearing Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use after a key panel overwhelmingly endorsed the shots Thursday evening, Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement Friday. “Following yesterday’s positive advisory committee meeting […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 7, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsAmericans have made no secret of their skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines this year, with fears of political interference and a “warp speed” timeline blunting confidence in the shots. As recently as September, nearly half of U.S. adults said they didn’t […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 3, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsCalifornia, like the rest of the nation, is seeing a dramatic rise in COVID infections and deaths — and Los Angeles County has some of the most dire statistics. Health officials reported more than 7,500 new cases in the county […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 2, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsHospitals in much of the country are trying to cope with unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 patients. As of Monday, 96,039 were hospitalized, an alarming record that far exceeds the two previous peaks in April and July of just under 60,000 […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 1, 2020
Via: Waste360The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) submitted a letter to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to prioritize the solid waste and recycling sector to receive the COVID-19 vaccines. […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
November 24, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsRegistered nurse Pascaline Muhindura has spent the past eight months treating COVID patients at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. But when she returns home to her small town of Spring Hill, Kansas, she’s often stunned by what she […]