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Healthcare Brief (01/14/21) Tenet acquires surgery centers and offloads urgent care, BSW Foundations new president, Medical Citys food bank donation, and more. By Will Maddox Published in Healthcare Business January 13, 2021 2:39 pm Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation has named Ben Renberg its new president. Renberg brings 25 year sof experience in the nonprofit world, and was most recently senior associate vice president of alumni affairs and development at Cornell University. “Ben has a...

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Scammers use COVID-19 vaccine to fuel new fraud Scammers use COVID-19 vaccine to fuel new fraud By Andrew Webb | January 9, 2021 at 8:04 PM EST - Updated January 10 at 8:59 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Scammers have been using the pandemic as an excuse to perpetrate fraud. Now that the COVID-19 Vaccine is starting to be distributed, crooks are using it to fuel even more scams. The Valley Program for Aging Services says a certain population of people will be targeted the most: seniors. ...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Houston’s Belmont Village Senior Living Communities Combat COVID-19 With Vaccine, a Sense of Community, Special Events and Crucial Socialization January 7, 2021 GMT HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 7, 2021-- Belmont Village Senior Living founder and CEO, Patricia Will, and her 90-year-old father and resident, Laureano Marino Gutierrez, (Papi) will receive the COVID-19 vaccine together at Belmont Village...

Fresh It could be back to the drawing board again for the Shenandoah County School Board after the Board of Supervisors announced last week that it is considering cutting nearly 2.7 million dollars from the school board’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget. 1 hour ago in Local, Sports Fresh With the number of Virginians being vaccinated against coronavirus going up and the number of COVID-19 in the state cases going down, Governor Ralph Northam is set to ease restrictions next week. ...

Fresh It could be back to the drawing board again for the Shenandoah County School Board after the Board of Supervisors announced last week that it is considering cutting nearly 2.7 million dollars from the school board’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget. 2 hours ago in Local, Sports Fresh With the number of Virginians being vaccinated against coronavirus going up and the number of COVID-19 in the state cases going down, Governor Ralph Northam is set to ease restrictions next week....

1/7/21   BEWARE COVID-19 VACCINE SCAMS In an effort to protect older adults and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, VPAS is providing fraud prevention guidance for wide distribution. As the COVID-19 vaccines start to roll out, scammers will start to take advantage. This type of fraud will move very quickly, very soon, and will take many forms. Scammers rapidly alter their tactics and adapt their schemes to the changing landscape, and we anticipate that they will leverage the pending...

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Adam Dondro, 38, of Carmichael, has been reappointed Deputy Secretary for

The Johnson City Press on returning to schools after a winter break during the pandemic: The annual winter break from school is a bigger relief than ever this year for students, teachers and especially school administrators. The pressure from schooling decisions around the novel coronavirus pandemic has been immense - perhaps not at the levels faced by frontline health care providers, but nonetheless in unprecedented ways. And the pressure is likely to get worse in the new year. Since early Nov...