Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. The programme targets around 26 million newborns each year, offering vaccination for 12 vaccine-preventable diseases.

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Public Hospital Doctors Prevention Hospitals 219

Healthcare It News

JULY 15, 2024

That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. It encompasses Erie County Medical Center, one of only five public hospitals in New York State and the region's only Level 1 Adult Trauma Center.

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Integration Primary Care Healthcare Nursing 243

Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The pressure nurses are under to provide care outside of the hospital and to support family members has implications for the capacity and stability of health care systems, and is particularly concerning for public health care systems, which exist to care for the underserved and marginalized.

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Nursing Medical Practitioners Population Health Public Hospital 128

KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. But a federal appellate court recently said Young’s firing violated the law and ordered that she be reinstated.

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Hospitals Patient Safety Doctors Nursing 104

Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. In New York City, Black women like Ms.

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Patient Safety Prevention Accountability Doctors 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

– Aspirus Wausau Hospital in Wausau, Wisconsin, was awarded $999,463 for the purchase of tablets and video conferencing devices to increase telehealth capabilities so providers can interact with patients without unnecessary risk of exposure to COVID-19. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. .

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Telemedicine Remote Care Hospitals Urgent Care 98

NASHP

APRIL 15, 2022

Use crisis services, emergency rooms, urgent care, or inpatient stays as the sole source of care; Experienced two or more emergency room visits or two or more hospitalizations due to SMI or SUD in the past 12 months. Short-term post-hospitalization housing. Public hospital systems. Eviction prevention.

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Medicaid Public Hospital Hospitals Nursing 59