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Biloxi VA using smart disinfecting robot to fight germs
Delivers UVC light to inactivate pathogens
Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System employees are using an advanced method of disinfecting facility areas. This directly impacts the health and safety of Veterans visiting the organization’s clinics.
Environmental Management Service (EMS) began training and certification on use of the Tru-D Smart UVC Disinfection robot cleaning system in late 2020. The robot ensures EMS continues the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for infection control in medical facility settings.
Its creators designed the Tru-D Smart UVC Disinfection Robot to deliver a measured dose of UVC light to consistently inactivate pathogens on hard, nonporous surfaces. It operates from one position in a room, bathing an area in UVC light, proven to significantly reduce pathogens.
Providence VA begins administering Moderna vaccine
STEVEN MITCHELL, an Army veteran and housekeeper with the Environmental Management Service at the Providence VA Medical Center, was the third person in the VA Providence Healthcare System to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE VA MEDICAL CENTER PROVIDENCE – The VA Providence Healthcare System on Monday began COVID-19 vaccinations with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, following approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The system is one of 112 VA medical centers across the United States to receive the first limited supply of the Moderna vaccine. The VA Providence Healthcare System is…
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Sharon Otterman, The New York Times
Published: 16 Dec 2020 12:06 PM BdST
Updated: 16 Dec 2020 12:06 PM BdST Dr Michelle Chester holds a vial of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine before giving it to Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, at Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in New Hyde Park, New York, US, Dec 14, 2020. REUTERS
The first shipment of the vaccine arrived at a loading dock in New York shortly after sunrise on Monday. The head pharmacist for one of Northwell Health’s hospitals, who had been tracking the package, opened the 63-pound box, packed in dry ice. He took out a single vial.
Some housekeeping staff are at the top of the list for the COVID-19 vaccine
MASSACHUSETTS (CNN) – The first COVID-19 vaccine is here, but it’s not just doctors and nurses who are getting it first.
At the VA Bedford Healthcare System in Massachusetts, Andrew Miller a housekeeper in the Environmental Management Service was the first employee to get the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Monday afternoon, the hospital said.
Miller isn’t the only one, either. As hospitals around the country receive the first shipments of the vaccine, some housekeepers are finding themselves at the top of the list.
In Lexington, Kentucky at Baptist Health, a member of the housekeeping staff along with an intensivist, an ICU nurse and an emergency room nursing assistant were among the first to get the vaccine’s first dose Monday.