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Five metro Detroit companies are making strides in their ongoing journeys toward equality, diversity, and inclusion in their workplaces, communities, and the world. The enterprises say their efforts improve recruitment and retention, keep clients and partners engaged, bolster their reputations, support the regions they serve and, ultimately, boost their bottom lines.
One Detroit-based law firm has revamped its diversity efforts twice in less than 10 years.
While Butzel Long had a committee dedicated to diversity and retention for many years, it wasn’t until 2014 that the group began to focus on recruiting diverse law students, many of whom are later hired to fill full-time positions.
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Medical Matters Weekly with Dr Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show, will feature Natalie Kwit, public health veterinarian with the Vermont Department of Health, as a guest on its May 12 show. The show will air at a special time, 11 a.m., and will cover everything you need to know about ticks and tick-borne disease.
The show is produced with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can see Medical Matters Weekly on Facebook at facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington.
Dr. Kwit leads the Vermont Department of Health’s Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Disease Program, including the surveillance, prevention, investigation, and response to tick-borne, mosquito-borne, and zoonotic diseases. She earned her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from University of Illinois and Master of Public Health degree from University
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The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, has announced a new program for providers to cover the cost of administering COVID-19 vaccines to patients enrolled in health plans that either do not cover vaccination fees or cover them with patient cost-sharing.
The COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund addresses a provider need to be reimbursed for uncompensated costs. Providers cannot bill patients for COVID-19 vaccination fees.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said, We listened to our healthcare providers on the frontlines of the pandemic. On top of increasing reimbursement rates tied to administering the shots, we are closing the final payment gap that resulted as vaccines were administered to underinsured individuals. No healthcare provider should hesitate to deliver these critical vaccines to patients over reimbursement cost concerns.
Dear residents, family, and friends of Coos County Nursing Home:
We continue with no new positives since our employee on April 12. Current active COVID-19 cases are zero residents and zero employees. We have one employee result pending from this weekâs testing before we are able to move into Phase 1. We have one resident who developed a cough today and was rapid tested; the result was negative for COVID-19, and a follow-up PCR is pending at this time.
There has been an incredible amount of guidance updates that came out this week from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CDC, and the state of New Hampshire. We are still reviewing and updating our policy and procedures. Once we have everything reviewed, we will be sending out additional updates to you.