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Tri-County Health Care serves some of the most hard-hit communities in recent weeks in and around Wadena, Todd and Otter Tail counties. Just under 20 miles to the east, Lakewood Health Systems in Staples is another hospital to benefit from FEMA's response to an urgent need for staffing to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wadena, Staples, Onamia and Mall of America have a team of FEMA personnel on site to help with COVID-19 staffing needs.

Even as the pandemic sent a shock through Tower Healths shaky finances, the West Reading-based health system continued to open more urgent care centers. Since it announced layoffs of 1,000 employees in June, Tower has opened seven new urgent care centers in Chester, Montgomery and Berks counties.  The most recent opening in Hamburg follows Towers restructuring of its physician practices, Tower Health Medical Group, affecting nearly 200 doctors and other staff. The consolidation is expe...

Open and ready for patients at Quick Care Tahoe. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Dr. Steven Leman, a long-time physician on the South Shore, has opened Quick Care Tahoe to fill a need for immediate, appointment-less care after the closing of Tahoe Urgent Care and retirement of Dr. Henning Mehrens. Located near the "Y" in South Lake Tahoe, Quick Care Tahoe offers medical access seven days/week from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. without the need for appointments. It is privately owned by Dr. Leman and his...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A 41-year resident of Barton’s Emergency Room staff, Dr. Steve Leman, is opening an urgent care facility, Quick Care Tahoe, in South Lake Tahoe near the “Y.” Tahoe Urgent Care and Family Medicine closed in May 2020 leaving the south end of the city with no option for swift care for less severe injuries other than Barton’s Urgent Care facility at Stateline or the Emergency Room in South Lake. “This is a community need that needs to be filled,” Leman said....

BENTON, La. -- Willis-Knighton Health System’s WK Palmetto Health Park Benton opens Monday, bringing quality urgent care and basic diagnostic services to north Bossier. The health park features healthcare options including WK Physician Network Clinics, WK Quick Care and WK Diagnostic Service Center. WK Palmetto Family Practice, with Dr. Lindsey T. Brown, is the first WK Physician Network Clinic to open in this location. The clinic is a new model combining network clinics with WK Quick Care...

7:55 p.m.: CPS 14-day rate decreases to 27.4 from 32.4 The Columbia Public Schools 14-day case rate per 10,000 people is at 27.4.  The updated CPS student tracker shows 208 students in the district currently in quarantine and 18 active cases. To break the student cases down: Elementary schools: 110 quarantined, 10 positive cases, 11 out of 21 schools affected. Middle schools: 33 quarantined, 5 positive cases, 6 out of 7 schools affected. High schools: 34 quarantined, 3 positive cases, 4 out ...

7:55 p.m.: CPS 14-day rate decreases to 27.4 from 32.4 The Columbia Public Schools 14-day case rate per 10,000 people is at 27.4.  The updated CPS student tracker shows 208 students in the district currently in quarantine and 18 active cases. To break the student cases down: Elementary schools: 110 quarantined, 10 positive cases, 11 out of 21 schools affected. Middle schools: 33 quarantined, 5 positive cases, 6 out of 7 schools affected. High schools: 34 quarantined, 3 positive cases, 4 out ...

As COVID-19 continues to spread, KOMU 8 will continue to update you about impacts in the community.

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