Unhee Kim, Mount Carmel Health System: Finalist, Executive of the Year, Columbus CEO Healthcare Achievement Awards 2021
Since Unhee Kim stepped into the healthcare industry, she has continuously risen higher. Beginning as a nurse at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, Kim, an immigrant of South Korea, quickly rose to leadership positions within every hospital she served. Today, Kim is the president and chief operating officer of Mount Carmel East.
Throughout her time at Mount Carmel, Kim has been essential to company successes, such as the 2020 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award, IBM Watson Top 100 Hospital award and Medicare Five Star rating. Kim also serves on the American Heart Association board.
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Sarah Buck Davis and her husband, Brock Davis, had planned to add to their family last year.
The Northwest Side couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Sutton, and figured it was a good time to give her a sibling.
But the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March, “threw a wrench into that,” Sarah Davis said.
She had just graduated with her master’s degree, and with the economy tanking in the spring, it took longer than expected to find a job as a nurse practitioner. On top of that were the medical concerns of being pregnant during a pandemic.
“Having a second kid is not cheap, and I also had a lot of anxiety about not knowing if (pregnancy) was safe,” she said. “It just freaked me out. We decided `not now.’”
Ohio COVID-19 vaccination details and distribution are always in flux
Moderna vaccine doses to Ohio were expected to increase this week from 73,000 to 105,600 while Pfizer, which now is providing about 73,200 doses a week to Ohio, expects to double that number by mid- to late-February, Gov. Mike DeWine has said.
The constant changes mean details related to the vaccine are always in flux, said Alexis Shaw, spokeswoman for Ohio State University s Wexner Medical Center. The last thing vaccine providers want to do is have to call a patient to canVaccnatcel or reschedule an appointment, she said. Because of the way the vaccine distribution is working, it s kind of a week-by-week situation, Shaw said.