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How well can your hospital recover after COVID-19? This new study…
Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied HealthcareAs a healthcare professional at a hospital, you know your facility has faced its greatest operational challenges ever because of COVID-19. You're no doubt thinking ahead to how your facility will normalize after the crisis eases — but how do you know what areas you need to focus your attention on? A new study from Colorado State University researchers Emad M. Hassan and Hussam Mahmoud, "An Integrated Socio-Technical Approach for Post-Earthquake Recovery of Interdependent Healthcare System," can help give you some vital guidelines.
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Increased telehealth use creates calls for its continued expansion among…
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareLong seen as a pariah of sorts, the practice of telemedicine is here to stay. Blame COVID-19 and social distancing for breaking the outdated resistance. Telemedicine continues to expand because of the pandemic, including the use of telehealth, remote monitoring technologies, and wearables. Experts say that the use of these technologies is now a way of life for patients and will likely replace some in-person care.
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Nurses: The professional progeny of Florence Nightingale
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareFlorence Nightingale, the founder and progenitor of the modern nursing profession, lit a spark several centuries ago that burns within millions of nurses to this day. The lamp that she literally — or metaphorically — lit during the Crimean War continues to illuminate nurses’ paths forward, and her legacy is one that strengthens with age as her offspring continue to advance the profession. And in difficult times such as the current coronavirus pandemic, nurses fight the good fight around the clock.
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US payrolls plunge by 20.5 million jobs; unemployment climbs to 14.7%
Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAttempts to contain COVID-19 led the U.S. economy to shed 20.5 million nonfarm jobs in April versus March's employment loss of 701,000. April's unemployment rate spiked to 14.7% from 4.4% in March. In April, job losses hit all sectors, notably hospitality and leisure payrolls. "Today's report is more than ten-fold worse than the previous all-time high of 1.95 million job losses in September 1945,” Andrew Stettner, senior fellow at The Century Foundation, said in a statement.
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Quantifying undetected cases of COVID-19: The pandemic serum sampling study
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareA new study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has been initiated to determine how many adults in the U.S. without a confirmed history of COVID-19 infection have antibodies to the virus. This is a serosurvey, and researchers will collect and analyze blood samples from an estimated 15,000 participants (18 years of age and older) who have not had a confirmed history of COVID-19 or current symptoms in an endeavor to provide critical data for epidemiological models.
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When someone is dying, what can we do?
Lisa Cole Medical & Allied HealthcareIn the throes of the uptick of the COVID-19 pandemic, my son sent me a text from a colleague of his lamenting that while thousands are and will be dying, the public is only hearing from scientists, politicians and economists. He implored experts grounded in the humanities speak directly about death before it arrives. My kid said, "Mom, do it." And proceeded to ask me a question that ripped my heart right open. "What if I had been healthy last week and today I am dying. I'm still coherent; what would you say to me? It's happening to people everywhere."
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Lost hospital revenue comes into view as elective surgeries resume
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareThe American Hospital Association has released a new report that suggests cratered healthcare finances as a result of COVID-19 have been disproportionally devastating for hospitals and health systems. The report says losses to these organizations will surpass $200 billion during the first four months of the outbreak from March through June 2020. The losses are not directly related to coronavirus itself but are due to the massive ancillary response to curbing the spread of the virus.
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Podcast: How to market a cash-based practice on social media
Jarod Carter MarketingIn this episode, Jarod Carter does a deep dive on how to approach social media marketing for a cash-based physical therapy practice. You'll learn about constructing compelling ads and targeting them to your ideal customers. He'll also walk you through how you can determine exactly which ads are effective in bringing enough cash-pay business into your practice.
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CMS continues expanding services in response to COVID-19
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced several changes pertaining to delivering care to seniors and to "provide flexibility to the healthcare system as America reopens" from the economic shutdown brought on by COVID-19, the agency said in a statement on April 30. The changes are many and include making it easier for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to get tested for COVID-19, the expansion of telehealth services, and the dismissal of rules for how certain groups can be treated and where.
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COVID-19 crisis slows organ transplants nationwide
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareAs ICUs have filled up with COVID-19 patients, the number of organ transplants have decreased significantly nationwide. Data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) showed transplants decreased sharply in early March. By the last week of month, half the number of transplants were performed as in the first week. According to the UNOS, there were about 900 transplants the week of Feb. 16. By March 29, that number had fallen to 437. Living donor programs have seen the most significant drop.
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