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Kind of a dreary start. The fog is thick. Is it going to burn off . This is going to be a first half of the day type of thing. By the afternoon cloudy skies but at least well get rid of this wet weather. Lets take a look at first alert doppler. We have some showers pushing through. Theyre pretty light for the most part. Theres only a couple areas of lighter rain. If you head down 95 we are looking at heavier pockets of rain. This is all going to head over to Charles County and Southern Maryland,...

Procedures. A super bug outbreak in southern california. Nearl0y 20 patients have been exposed at Ronald Reagan ucla medical center. 200 people may have been exposed. Its miserable. It is dangerously cold yet again, and right now over 100 million americans are feeling it. North dakota to florida and all the way up. Really through the heart of it is up through the great lakes. We have a chance to go 30 degrees below zero. A summit aimed at countering violent extremism continues at the white house...

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Now Habersham Georgia hospitals face severe nursing shortage The need for hospital bedside nurses with experience “is the worst we’ve ever seen it,’’ said Matt Caseman, CEO of the Georgia Nurses Association. One sign of the severity of Georgia’s nurse shortage can be seen in the bonuses offered to experienced RNs to join a hospital workforce. Some health systems in the state are paying bonuses of more than $10,000 to attract nurses. And Piedmont Healthcare, which is r...

One sign of the severity of Georgia’s nurse shortage can be seen in the bonuses offered to experienced RNs to join a hospital workforce. Some health systems in the state are paying bonuses of more than $10,000 to attract nurses. And Piedmont Healthcare, which is rapidly becoming Georgia’s biggest health system, said

Primary Content Caption Nurses are not the only personnel in short supply. Respiratory therapists are also in high demand. Credit: Stock photo One sign of the severity of Georgia’s nurse shortage can be seen in the bonuses offered to experienced RNs to join a hospital workforce. Some health systems in the state are paying bonuses of more than $10,000 to attract nurses. And Piedmont Healthcare, which is rapidly becoming Georgia’s biggest health system, said it has offered bonus...

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has also experienced the rise in cases. “We are currently caring for 16 children in our hospital system,’’ a Children’s spokeswoman, Allyson Wright, said Monday. “The number of children in our care with COVID-19 has fluctuated throughout the pandemic, but we are seeing an increase in numbers, likely due to holiday gatherings and travel,’’ Wright said. Rates of illness and spread of the virus in children follow patterns lik...

Georgia’s recent spike in COVID-19 cases includes a comparable rise in the number of children getting the disease. “These aren’t necessarily cases linked to a [school] setting, but rather cases among children who are in these age groups,’’ said Amber Schmidtke, who tracks Georgia COVID trends in the Daily Digest. College-aged adult and young adults have a similar case rate increase over the past two weeks, Schmidtke said. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has also experienced the ri...