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For steady care and pandemic bravery, a hat tip to nurses
American Association of Colleges of Nursing includes Norwich images in video marking National Nurses Week
As President Dr. Mark Anarumo has said, nurses played a big role in helping Norwich mitigate the coronavirus pandemic during academic year 2020-21. Nursing staff and students, directed by Nursing Director Paulette Thabault and Center for Civic Engagement Director Nicole DiDomenico, kept the Plumley Armory COVID-19 testing center running, administering more than 28,000 tests in the spring semester alone.
The American Nurses Association and American Association of Colleges of Nursing are hailing nurses with National Nurses Day, which was Thursday, and National Nurses Week, which runs through May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. (Nightingale (1820-1910) transformed nursing by setting hospital sanitation standards, establishing a laundry to get patients clean linens and creating an “invalid’s kitchen” to
Fort Carson to begin COVID vaccinations Tuesday; Schriever says doses en route, officials say gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Spec. Donovan Havard gets tested with an oral swab by medic Spec. James Reynolds at the Centralized Screening and Testing Center at Evans Army Community Hospital on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Other medics wait for their next soldier to test. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, Gazette) About 4000 soldiers from the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, are being tested for COVID-19. The soldiers are being tested before they are deployed next month the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.
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Fort Carson to distribute the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine starting Tuesday
FORT CARSON, Colo. (KRDO) Starting Tuesday, Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson will begin offering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers.
A statement released Monday confirmed Evans Amy Community Hospital received the vaccine today and plans to distribute it starting Tuesday, at 8:15 a.m.
According to Fort Carson, the vaccine will be given to the hospital s healthcare workers and emergency personnel as part of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan mandated by the Department of Defense.
At a later date, the vaccine will also be offered to patients, including military family members and retirees.