Medical Personnel

Here's How to Keep Nurses From Leaving

Fri, 2021-12-10 17:31 — mike kraft

Here's How to Keep Nurses From Leaving Leaders talk money, mentoring, training, and a chance to be heard Shannon Firth medpagetoday

Payment recognition, effective mentoring, and nurse residency programs can help prevent nurses from leaving their jobs, said nurse leaders and government officials during an online discussion of workforce issues hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

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Wisconsin, other midwest hospitals facing new COVID surge

Fri, 2021-12-10 17:17 — mike kraft

Hospitals in the Midwest Face New COVID Surge Amid increasing Delta cases, staffing is down, and Omicron looms Jennifer Henderson medpagetoday

Nearly 2 years into the pandemic, hospitals in the Midwest are getting hit with a staggering new surge.

Capacity is strained, and so is staff. And no one knows for sure what the Omicron variant will bring.

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California: First Omicron case found in San Diego, state's medical director harassed by anti-vaxxers

Fri, 2021-12-10 10:22 — mike kraft

1st Case of COVID Omicron Variant Found in Fully Vaccinated and Boosted San Diegan On Thursday, San Diego officials reported the first case of a local patient who had tested positive for the omicron variant of COVID. Brenda Gregorio-Nieto,Eric S. Page,The Associated Press NBC 7 San Diego

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Military medical teams sent to New Mexico and six other western and midwestern states

Fri, 2021-12-10 10:07 — mike kraft

Navy medics join COVID fight in hard-hit New Mexico Dozens of U.S. Navy medics have deployed to New Mexico to treat a Delta variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 patients as part of a military operation to treat virus hotspots across Western and Midwest states. Shannon Stapleton Reuters

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Michigan snapshot: Covid-19 cases way up but not a single person who had booster shot has died

Fri, 2021-12-10 09:53 — mike kraft

(CNN) Nurse Katie Sefton never thought Covid-19 could get this bad -- and certainly not this late in the pandemic.

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Three more U.S. states facing Covid-19 case surges, hospital strains

Thu, 2021-12-09 19:28 — mike kraft

Indiana hospitals see record patient count amid virus surge | AP News INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana hospitals are seeing their highest-ever overall patient counts amid a monthlong COVID-19 surge and the state’s largest hospital system announced Thursday it had enlisted National Guard assistance. AP NEWS

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Three Northeast states deploy National Guard amid medical capacity crisis due to pandemic

Thu, 2021-12-09 10:10 — mike kraft

(CNN) The governors of Maine and New York deployed the National Guard in response to dangerously low capacity at statewide medical facilities due to the pandemic.

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