Cheryl Willoughby, project coordinator for Systems & Procedures at Vidant, plays a key role in organizing these events. She said it is crucial to bring health care to the people of eastern North Carolina because of Vidant’s unique rural positioning. “Access to health care is a huge issue for a […]
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If Mississippi’s hospitals were adequately staffed amid the current COVID-19 resurgence, they could open over 1,000 additional beds statewide, health officials said Wednesday. Seventy-three Mississippi hospitals have collectively asked the state for roughly 1,450 health care workers, said Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection for the Mississippi State Department […]
Hospital officials around the state are watching Indiana’s COVID-19 numbers – and not liking what they’re seeing. As of Tuesday, COVID hospitalizations in Indiana had crossed the 1,500 line for the first time since early February with no sign of a decrease in the future. That’s only slightly under half of […]
The labor shortage roiling American industries from restaurants to retail stores is now stressing the health care system, causing a ripple effect among Washington hospitals of severe overcrowding. The state’s hospitals are at near maximum capacity, forcing administrators to shuffle patients to other facilities, cancel surgeries and fill hallways with […]
An ambulance arrives at the emergency department at AdventHealth hospital in Orlando in late July. Florida is one of several states seeing disappearing hospital capacity as COVID-19 cases surge. Paul Hennessy /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Hennessy /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An ambulance arrives […]
When health officials in Austin and elsewhere in Texas saw an approaching COVID-19 surge last month, they sent urgent requests to the governor’s emergency operations team to bolster the number of nurses and staff. They had every reason to believe that more health care workers would soon fill hospital hallways. But as […]
The claim: ‘It’s not unusual for hospitals to sit at max or near max capacity on any given day’ Spurred by the highly contagious delta variant, coronavirus infections and deaths are increasing across the country. In states like Texas and Florida, which lead the country in daily average hospitalizations, hospitals are […]
Little Rock, Arkansas CNN — Takela Gardner began her nursing career just two years ago, but her patients already think she’s a seasoned nurse. A registered nurse at a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) facility in Little Rock, Gardner told CNN she’s had to essentially learn nursing […]
CONCORD – The New Hampshire Hospital Association released a statement Tuesday supporting hospitals and other health care facilities that mandate COVID vaccinations for their employees. Many hospitals in New Hampshire are heading in that direction, including Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover as well as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, the state’s largest medical care […]
BOSTON – Nurses in Massachusetts have filed proposed ballot questions calling for redistributing earnings from well-off hospitals to those that may cut services, increasing financial transparency, and banning hospital CEOs from working with medical device or pharmaceutical companies. Massachusetts Nurses Association Executive Director Julie Pinkham filed three initiative petitions with the Attorney General’s […]