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CIO Leadership: Fostering a High-Performing Culture Will Lead the Discussion at HMG Strategy’s Upcoming 2021 HMG Live! New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit
Speakers and attendees in this interactive event will also explore the role of business technology executives in developing new business models and go-to-market strategies
2021 HMG Live! New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit
Join the top CIOs, CISOs and technology executives from the Garden State and from across North America as we explore fresh approaches to cultivating a high-performance culture and other top priorities facing business technology executives today.
Jordan previously gave $7 million to open Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinics
in Charlotte in 2019 and 2020. Those clinics have since seen more than 4,500 patients and have administered about 1,000 Covid-19 vaccines, Novant Health said.
“I am very proud to once again partner with Novant Health to expand the Family Clinic model to bring better access to critical medical services in my home town,” Jordan said
. “Everyone should have access to quality health care, no matter where they live, or whether or not they have insurance.
Novant said the new clinics would bring services to “more rural and rural-adjacent communities” and to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
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Positive messaging plays a key role in increasing COVID-19 mask compliance
Many organizations are looking at effective ways to communicate the importance of wearing a mask, especially as highly contagious new strains of coronavirus threaten to cause a surge in infections.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill suggest positive messages based on unity and togetherness are critical to supporting the effort and could help normalize wearing a mask in social settings.
Their findings, published in December in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, give public health experts, leaders and communicators insight to craft messaging that could potentially increase mask usage during the pandemic.
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What do we need to open schools safely?
It’s a question on millions of Americans’ minds as the Covid-19 pandemic lurches into its 11th month, with many children still learning at home, many parents beyond burned out, and some of them forced to quit their jobs to take care of kids.
It’s also a question with seemingly limitless answers, as states, school districts, and teachers unions have been left to negotiate safety among themselves with, until recently, little guidance from the federal government.
In Arizona, for example, many school districts are open for in-person instruction, even as the state posts one of the highest test positivity rates in the country, at close to 15 percent. In Fairfax County, Virginia, meanwhile, some parents were outraged after a teachers union implied in a now-deleted tweet that schools shouldn’t reopen until students are vaccinated which probably won’t be until 2022. (The union