Category: Medical Supplies

Invisible until the pandemic, family caregivers are now on the front lines

November 9, 2021 Sharika Soukup

For more than 30 years I’ve advocated for our nation’s family caregivers, a cause borne from my own experiences caring for loved ones. I have long known that they have not received the acknowledgment and support they deserve. One of the many sobering lessons of the current pandemic is that our nation’s family caregivers must…

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We’ve Entered a New Era of Streaming Health Care. Now What?

November 8, 2021 Sharika Soukup

One way to minimize such delays is by cutting a path through the Internet, one that takes into account the traffic conditions up ahead. My company, Subspace, has built such a network using custom hardware and a proprietary fiber-optic backbone. And we’ve shown it doesn’t have to be complicated—users don’t have to do anything more…

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What’s at stake when COVID-19 waivers expire

November 6, 2021 Sharika Soukup

FOX43 Reveals which COVID-19 waivers might have a good chance at staying in place as health care providers fight to make them permanent. HARRISBURG, Pa. — At the beginning of the pandemic, the Wolf Administration established COVID-19 waivers to help hospitals and nursing homes respond to the coronavirus. Over the last 19 months, the waivers…

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Arizona Privatized Prison Health Care to Save Money. But at What Cost?

November 5, 2021 Sharika Soukup

In 2017, Walter Jordan wrote a memo to a federal judge from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. “Notice of Impending Death,” it said in a shaky hand. Jordan told the judge that Arizona corrections officials and Corizon Health, the state prison system’s private health care contractor at that time, delayed treating his cancer…

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Health care plagued by new supply chain shortages

November 3, 2021 Sharika Soukup

From medications to gloves to crutches, the strains of the global supply chain are hitting U.S. health care hard. Why it matters: Shortages of health care supplies can quickly jump from a nuisance to a life-or-death proposition. They indicate serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. health care supply chain. State of play: After seeing major supply…

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1,500 healthcare workers resigned in 1H 2021: Puthucheary

November 2, 2021 Sharika Soukup

SCREENGRAB: Gov.sg YouTube channel SINGAPORE — A total of 1,500 healthcare workers have resigned in the first half of 2021, compared to about 2,000 annually before the pandemic, said Senior Minister of State (SMS) for Health Janil Puthucheary in Parliament on Monday (1 November). The SMS told the House that more foreign healthcare workers have…

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Facing pandemic burnout, Washington state health care workers join growing call for more long-term staff support

November 1, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Treating COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit for the past 19 months often reminds Paul Fuller, a registered nurse in Wenatchee, of his time in the U.S. Army. Fuller began his nursing career as an Army medic and spent 14 months deployed to Iraq, he said Thursday evening in a panel with other nurses…

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City employees face months-long wait time for mental health care

October 29, 2021January 11, 2022 Sharika Soukup

San Francisco city employees insured through Kaiser Permanente and seeking mental health treatment sometimes have to wait up to three months for an appointment with a therapist, a hearing during the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Thursday revealed. Supervisor Connie Chan, who sits on the committee, called the hearing in response…

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