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Photo: WINA CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – UVa Hospital today (Tuesday) has loosened up some visitation policies tightened last year because of COVID-19. Bush Bell with UVa Health’s patient experience team says in-patients can now have two visitors at bedside — and they must be 18 or older. One designated Care Partner may stay in the room overnight. Patients may have two visitors in procedural areas and in the emergency department. In outpatient clinics, patients can have one visitor. In the...

Bridgemoor Transitional Care, a 105-bed skilled nursing facility in San Antonio, helped residents celebrate the Mexican holiday this year by hosting an outdoor performance by Mariachi Azul de San Antonio. A Texas skilled nursing facility decided that Cinco de Mayo was the perfect opportunity to do something special for patients after more than a year of being inside and experiencing limited interaction. So, it broke the COVID blues by bringing in a mariachi band...

View Comments Well update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Thursday, May 13.  Cases, hospitalizations fall while workplace outbreaks increase COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations declined last week, for the second week in a row, the Oregon Health Authority’s weekly COVID-19 report shows. OHA reported 4,896 new cases of COVID-19 between May 3 and May 9. That’s a 12% decrease from the previous week. New COVID-19 related hospital...

View Comments  Well update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Thursday, May 6. Oregon reports 611 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases The Oregon Health Authority has identified 611 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases through May 3, including eight deaths. Vaccine breakthrough cases are defined as instances in which an individual receives a positive COVID-19 test result at least 14 days after completing a COVID-19 vaccine series. No...

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At this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, with vaccination rates going up and inoculations now available to anyone over fifteen, officials had hoped that case counts would be in serious decline. But no: This weeks roundup of data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows infections and hospitalizations continuing to rise — and the number of newly identified outbreaks has skyrocketed. The 170 new outbreak sites in the state listed on the CDPHEs just-released April 28 s...

View Comments Well update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Thursday, April 29. Oregon reports 928 cases, one death The Oregon Health Authority has reported 928 new cases of COVID-19. It has reported one new death, an 88-year-old man from Josephine County who tested positive April 9 and died April 27 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center. He had underlying conditions. That brings the state’s cumulative case count to 183,830, and ...

Well update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Thursday, April 22. Cases rise for a fourth consecutive week The Oregon Health Authority’s weekly COVID-19 report shows cases rising for a fourth consecutive week. OHA reported 4,742 new cases of COVID-19 between April 12 and April 18. That’s a 27% increase from the previous week. New COVID-19 related hospitalizations rose from 156 to 171. There were 19 COVID-19 deaths reported. The...

Well update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Thursday, April 15. Cases, hospitalizations, deaths rise for third week The Oregon Health Authority’s weekly COVID-19 report shows cases, hospitalizations and deaths rising for a third consecutive week. OHA reported 3,722 new cases of COVID-19 between April 5 and April 11. That’s a 26% increase from the previous week. New hospitalizations rose from 150 to 156. And 47 COVID-19 deaths...

Recently, Bluegrass Care Navigators began and expanded the organizations Alzheimers and dementia program as a result of a three year grant. The program, said representatives of Bluegrass Care Navigators, will assist patients and their families with managing Alzheimers, dementia and intellectual or developmental disabilities. Bluegrass Care Navigators, under our transitional care service line, was awarded a three-year grant from the Administration for Community Living for an Alzheimers and demen...