Pint for a Pint: Versiti Blood Center of Ohio taps into breweries to hold donation drives
Central Ohio breweries have been responding to that need ever since the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic hit last year.
Heather Sever, vice president and director of donor services for Versiti Blood Center of Ohio, said it might seem like an unlikely pairing – breweries serving as hosts for blood-donation events. But, she said, the brewery community, as well as distilleries and wineries, are known for giving back to the community.
Versiti Blood Center of Ohio joins four other Versiti Inc. blood centers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, as well as the Blood Research Institute, which offers biomedical research innovation to improve blood health, according to Versiti s Ohio page: versiti.org/ohio.
The Columbus Dispatch
Patients suffering strokes are often taken by ambulance to the nearest hospitals, not the ones best equipped to provide life-saving care.
Senate Bill 21, which is now pending in the Ohio House Transportation Committee, would provide new state guidelines for paramedics to assessment, triage and transport of stroke patients. Transferring a patient to the nearest hospital, which is often current practice, can lead to the patient needing to be transferred to multiple hospitals, increasing the chance of death or permanent disability. Every second counts, said state Sen. Nathan Manning, R-North Ridgeville, co-sponsor of the bill.
Jeri Ward, a former Mrs. Ohio and Dayton area resident, suffered a massive stroke in October 2018 at age 30. Testifying in favor of the bill, Ward said she was initially taken to a lower-level hospital that lacked the expertise to give her appropriate care and she was transferred 45 minutes later to a comprehensive stroke center for eme
Patients suffering strokes are often taken by ambulance to the nearest hospitals, not the ones best equipped to provide life-saving care.
Senate Bill 21, which is now pending in the Ohio House Transportation Committee, would provide new state guidelines for paramedics to assessment, triage and transport of stroke patients. Transferring a patient to the nearest hospital, which is often current practice, can lead to the patient needing to be transferred to multiple hospitals, increasing the chance of death or permanent disability. Every second counts, said state Sen. Nathan Manning, R-North Ridgeville, co-sponsor of the bill.
Jeri Ward, a former Mrs. Ohio and Dayton area resident, suffered a massive stroke in October 2018 at age 30. Testifying in favor of the bill, Ward said she was initially taken to a lower-level hospital that lacked the expertise to give her appropriate care and she was transferred 45 minutes later to a comprehensive stroke center for emergency surgery.
Adobe
At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials, a Johns Hopkins study is sparking outrage among some physicians because of its large number of Black patients.
The controversy has stoked concerns that the institution infamous for its role in the Henrietta Lacks story may have once again exploited marginalized people for medical research. The university denies any wrongdoing and instead said it was simply providing a service to its local community, which has a mostly Black population.
The paper was published last fall without much notice but caused a stir on social media in recent weeks. It was a retrospective study analyzing the abilities of three specially trained nurse practitioners to perform colonoscopies, an invasive and potentially lifesaving cancer screening procedure normally done by gastroenterologists. Of the more than 1,000 patients who received screening colonoscopies from the nurse practitioners between 2010 and 201