Highmark Health Receives $5 Million Grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to Enhance Behavioral Health Support Programs and Access to Social Services
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PITTSBURGH, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Highmark Health announced today that a $5 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will be used to leverage its partnership with Google Cloud and Verily to develop and deploy holistic, digitally enabled personalized health support programs and increased access to such services as part of its Living Health Strategy.
Funds from the grant will be used to address the chronic medical and behavioral health needs of patients and members across Highmark Health s core markets in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware and northeastern and western New York through the development of state-of-the-art personalized healthcare solutions. This will enable access to individualized options for digital solutions and care tailored to the
Maria Ines Patino Giraldo, R.N., wanted to be a nurse since she was 15 years old and the missionary nurse who worked in her home village in Colombia died in a plane crash.
Giraldo s desire eventually brought her to Erie, where her work with COVID-19 patients at Saint Vincent Hospital and dramatic haircut landed her on the cover of a special Marvel comic book. I was working with COVID patients last April, and I d have to put on and take off my (personal protective equipment) 20 to 25 times a shift, Giraldo said. I thought shaving my head would help me switch PPE faster and a matter of minutes can save a patient s life.
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As covid-19 vaccination efforts ramp up, many are beginning to wonder whether children should be vaccinated and when.
Dr. Joseph Aracri, chair of Allegheny Health Network’s pediatric institute, answers questions about vaccinating younger populations.
Children are less susceptible to severe illness from covid-19, so should children get the covid-19 vaccine?
“We are recommending it for kids for a number of reasons. The most important thing is looking at the risk-benefit ratio. The risk is very minimal when it comes to the vaccine. The benefit even though we know most kids don’t get severely sick with covid, there have been some deaths associated with covid, and severe illness as well. The additional benefit is keeping covid low in the community so we can keep schools open.”
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ALIQUIPPA A vaccination clinic will be available Thursday in the city.
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is hosting a community-based vaccination clinic from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Church in the Round, 744 Griffith St.
Both appointments and walk-ins will be accepted. AHN will deliver the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
To schedule an appointment, visit www.ahn.org/coronavirus/vaccine or call (412) DOCTORS. AHN MyChart users can log in to their account to schedule.
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“In life, you’re either heading into a storm, going through a storm or coming out of a storm.”
The pandemic brought that old saying to the forefront, said Rachel Jackson, Excela Health manager of outpatient behavioral health.
“During the pandemic, we’ve certainly seen an increase in anxiety and depression related to isolation, changes in routine, the inability to access the usual forms of support,” she said.
But life’s challenges both internal and external didn’t start with the pandemic, and they won’t end when it is over.