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Ohio’s Hospice and Ascend Innovations Announce New Strategic Partnership
December 21, 2020 GMT
Ohio s Hospice and Ascend Innovations Announce New Strategic Partnership
DAYTON, Ohio - December 21, 2020 - ( Newswire.com )
Ohio’s Hospice and Ascend Innovations are proud to announce a strategic partnership designed to produce data-driven technologies at the forefront of digital transformation within hospice and palliative care services. This partnership combines the technical capabilities of Ascend with the clinical, business and domain expertise of Ohio’s Hospice to create scalable products in Dayton that improve community health and the delivery of healthcare services.
Ohio saw a massive bump in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Dec. 8. That day, 25,721 new cases were reported, bringing the statewide case total well over the half-million mark since the pandemic’s start. About 13,000 of the new cases represented a backlog of positive antigen tests dating back to Nov. 1, according to state health officials.
But that still left about 12,721 new cases added in a single 24-hour period by far Ohio’s largest day of cases.
Compounding the case data were record-breaking numbers of new hospitalizations and ICU admissions. Ohio added 657 new hospitalizations on Tuesday, including 67 patients admitted to the ICU. The hospitalization number was amplified by the antigen test backlog, which contributed about 100 additional hospital admissions to the total, state health officials said.