SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Sanford Health president and chief executive officer Bill Gassen joined nine other health care officials in Minnesota to release a statement declaring gun violence as a public health crisis. “As leaders of some of our state’s health care systems, we believe it is time to declare gun violence as a…
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Hochul said in her State of the State address last week that she intends to put $10 billion over multiple years toward bolstering the health care workforce. But it’s still unclear how exactly that money will be allocated. A separate bill to raise the minimum wage for all home care workers, as a means of…
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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…