Category: Healthcare Providers
As COVID-19 Vaccine Demand Dips, Community Health Centers Take the Lead
Their mission is to close the gap between the vaccination rates of the nation’s most vulnerable people and the rest of the population.
Telemedicine Is a Tool — Not a Replacement for Your Doctor’s Touch
Covid-19 let virtual medicine out of the bottle. Now it’s time to tame it.
Vaccinations Lag for Home Health Workers
Just a quarter of home health care workers were vaccinated by early March, compared to about two-thirds of hospital workers and half of nursing home workers
More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
Nurses and support staff members died in far higher numbers than physicians.
Fewer rural students applying to medical school
This decrease could lead to fewer doctors in less populated areas of the country
‘Why Do I Put My Life on the Line?’ Pandemic Trauma Haunts Health Workers.
Health care workers across the country say they feel underappreciated by their employers and disillusioned with the medical profession.
‘I Wanted to Go in There and Help’: Nursing Schools See Enrollment Bump Amid Pandemic
Enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs increased nearly 6%.
Dying on the Waitlist
In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t.
As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
The typical workaround for staffing shortages — hiring clinicians from out of town — isn’t the solution anymore
COVID-19 shutters thousands of doctors’ offices across US
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.
Rural hospitals are under siege from COVID-19 . . . here’s what doctors are facing, in their own words
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
Health care workers wanted: A veteran needs you to work at a VA hospital
Huge vacancies in VA medical centers means that veterans are not getting the health care they need.
As treatments have improved, COVID-19 death rates have fallen 18%
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.
Insurers rolling back telehealth coverage as demand surgers
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.
Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk
Dozens of nursing homes and hospitals ignored official guidelines to separate COVID patients, as a result staff became infected and some died.