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Black women overrepresented in health care’s toughest jobs, study says

February 25, 2022 Sharika Soukup

As co-author Janette Dill, an associate professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota, put it: “They are taking care of peoples’ bodies, and feeding them, and bathing them, and taking people to the bathroom — it’s very hard physical labor.” Story continues below advertisement Shantonia Jackson, a 52-year-old…

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Grim diagnosis of racial inequality in healthcare | Letters

February 23, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The shameful racial inequalities documented by the NHS Race and Health Observatory report (Radical action needed to tackle racial health inequality in NHS, says damning report, 14 February) have rightly led to calls for action. But what has been missed is that even in the last decade alone, there have been a myriad of NHS-led…

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Face-mask requirements for health care settings still apply to dental offices

February 22, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The universal face-mask mandate will end Feb. 16, as previously scheduled, for most vaccinated Californians in public indoor settings, including restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues, but masks will continue to be required for all individuals in dental and medical offices and other specified settings. Many counties also have their own mask mandates in place, and…

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How St. David’s will staff new hospitals as part of $1B expansion

February 21, 2022 Sharika Soukup

How St. David’s will staff new hospitals as part of B expansion

AUSTIN (KXAN) — St. David’s HealthCare is promising three new hospitals and several other facility expansions using nearly $1 billion in infrastructure investments. It’s part of its efforts to keep up with Central Texas growth. “We had capacity problems even before COVID. People have longer wait times than they should in hospital emergency room departments,…

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Wounded veteran awaiting trial in health care fraud case dies in federal custody

February 20, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Springfield, Missouri – An Army veteran who was scheduled to go to trial in San Antonio later this year for health care fraud has died while in federal custody, officials confirmed Tuesday. Justin Perez-Gorda, 33, died Jan. 29 while being treated at a medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, a spokesperson for the…

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Health care workers brace for consequences of vaccine mandate

February 19, 2022 Sharika Soukup

As of Monday, there are mainly three types of health care workers in Montana. Those with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, those with an exemption because of their religious belief or medical condition, and those without a job. Feb. 14 was the date when medical facilities in the state that receive federal…

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Covid-19 may have permanently set back US cancer screenings

February 18, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Steve Serrao, chief of gastroenterology at a hospital in Moreno Valley, California, just lived through the fourth wave of Covid-19 with the omicron variant sweeping across the country. Patients in respiratory distress once again filled the hospital’s beds. But it is another wave, one that’s starting to trickle in but is still a long way…

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Utah Legislature 2022: Bills to up film tax incentives, ban car ‘selfies’ advance

February 17, 2022 Sharika Soukup

A bill meant to protect health care workers from violence and a rule change to limit press access in the Utah Senate won final legislative approval during a busy morning for the Utah Legislature on Tuesday. The Senate also advanced a slew of other bills, including one to allow increased tax incentives for rural film…

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