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Health care workers faced one of the most pivotal points in their careers this year, and although vaccines have arrived on the SouthCoast, the battle is still not over. "I dont think any of us woke up on Jan. 1, 2020, thinking we would be faced with a once-in-a-century pandemic that would change everything," said President Keith Hovan of Southcoast Health. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 caused the nation to shut down, resulting in unemployment, shortages, illness and ...

Some were expected — obviously an infectious disease will bring out heroes in the medical field. But who expected grocery store clerks to be our heroes? Or school nurses? Or grandmothers with sewing machines? Yet they all helped us through some dark times in 2020. And here is our way of celebrating them. Doctors When the coronavirus first hit this region back in March, doctors at Saint Annes Hospital and Charlton Memorial Hospital were — as expected — on the front lines. In March, as c...

December 21, 2020 6:20 pm CAMBRIDGE, M.A. (WLNE) — Millions of doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine are now on the roads headed to medical facilities across the country. The FDA gave approval to Moderna’s vaccine on Friday. On Monday, the Cambridge-based company began sending out 5.9 million doses from its Mississippi production facility. 120,000 of the first doses will be sent to hospitals and other medical centers across Massachusetts. “There’s really hope on the horizon here,” sai...

Dr. Dani Hackner, pulmonologist and chief clinical officer for Southcoast Health System, gets his first dose of the Pfizer-developed coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday. (Courtesy Southcoast Health System) Frontline health care workers in Massachusetts on Tuesday became among the first in the state to get doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech. The vaccine was authorized last week by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use; its the first vaccine of its kind in the U....

With the SouthCoast well into a second surge of COVID-19 cases, local hospitals have seen high volumes of both COVID-related and non-COVID cases.

NEW BEDFORD — Hospitals across the state will be cutting back on elective procedures and treatments, a move that will have ripple effects on the SouthCoast. In a press conference on Dec. 7, Marylou Sudders, Secretary of Health and Human Services said that effective Dec. 11, hospitals will need to cease these procedures that impact inpatient capacity. This does not apply to the cancellation or delay of life-sustaining care or care that would adversely impact the patients health. The directive...