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Coronavirus, Medical Education, Nurses

‘I Wanted to Go in There and Help’: Nursing Schools See Enrollment Bump Amid Pandemic

February 18, 2021

Enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs increased nearly 6%.

Coronavirus, Ethics, Healthcare Providers

Dying on the Waitlist

February 18, 2021

In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t.

Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the U.S. the hospital ship USNS Comfort. The ship cares for critical and non critical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status. Comfort is working with Javits New York Medical Station as an integrated system to relieve the New York City medical system, in support of U.S. Northern Command's Defense Support of Civil Authorities as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare Providers, Hospitals, Nurses

As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find

December 3, 2020

The typical workaround for staffing shortages — hiring clinicians from out of town — isn’t the solution anymore

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Coronavirus, Doctors

COVID-19 shutters thousands of doctors’ offices across US

November 30, 2020

A survey by the Physicians Foundation estimated that 8% of all physician practices nationally — around 16,000 — have closed under the stress of the pandemic.

Coronavirus, Healthcare Providers, Rural Health, Rural Hospitals

Rural hospitals are under siege from COVID-19 . . . here’s what doctors are facing, in their own words

November 20, 2020

In many communities, the goodwill seen early in the pandemic has given way to COVID fatigue and anger, making it hard to implement public health measures

Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Nurses, VA

Health care workers wanted: A veteran needs you to work at a VA hospital

November 11, 2020

Huge vacancies in VA medical centers means that veterans are not getting the health care they need.

Coronavirus, Healthcare Providers, Hospitals

As treatments have improved, COVID-19 death rates have fallen 18%

November 6, 2020

Along with new treatments, physicians have learnt simple techniques, such as putting a patient in a prone position to distribute oxygen more evenly in the lungs.

Health Insurance, Healthcare Providers, Technology

Insurers rolling back telehealth coverage as demand surgers

October 27, 2020

At the very beginning of the pandemic, the use of telehealth went from 13,000 to 1.7 million visits per week among Medicare recipients.

Coronavirus, Hospitals, Nurses, Nursing Homes

Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk

September 14, 2020

Dozens of nursing homes and hospitals ignored official guidelines to separate COVID patients, as a result staff became infected and some died.

Coronavirus, Doctors, Medical Education

Med Students ‘Feel Very Behind’ Because of COVID-Induced Disruptions in Training

August 31, 2020

“Everyone goes along with the idea that we’re all in the same boat together. But, really, it’s like we’re all on the Titanic and it’s sinking.”

Electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19
Animal Health, Doctors, Nurses

Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19

August 6, 2020

Health care workers of color were more likely to care for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, more likely to report using inadequate protective gear,

Coronavirus, Healthcare Providers

Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost to COVID-19. So She Stays Up At Night Cataloging the Dead.

August 3, 2020

Claire Rezba started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively. Researchers say the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous.”

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Healthcare Providers

Is telehealth as good as in-person care?

July 28, 2020

A telehealth researcher explains how to get the most out of remote health care

Coronavirus, Healthcare Providers, University of Washington

Low rate of coronavirus infection among frontline UW Medicine health workers antibody test finds

July 13, 2020

Only 3% of healthcare workers with direct exposure to COVID-19 patients were found to have antibodies against the virus, less than the general population

Coronavirus, Healthcare Providers

‘Please Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,’ Nurse Pleads

July 7, 2020

“Health care workers are scared, but we show up to work every single day,” Patel said. Wearing masks, she said, “is a very small thing to ask.”

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