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Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news.
Week in Review Highlight of the Week:
This week, the Senate Finance Committee discussed making permanent COVID-19 flexibilities, including those related to telehealth. See the hearing and other news below.
I.Regulations, Notices & Guidance
On May 19, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance entitled,
Feasibility Clinical Studies for Certain Medical Devices Intended to Therapeutically Improve Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. The draft guidance provides recommendations for feasibility and early feasibility clinical studies for certain medical devices intended to therapeutically improve glycemic control in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. These medical de
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Survey shows that Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) in northern Ontario communities are experiencing high levels of workload pressure, anxiety, workplace violence and physical and mental exhaustion.
This survey, administered by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) from March to April, was answered by 200 RPNs working at hospitals in Sudbury, Kenora and Fort Frances. The total number of nurses who took the survey across Ontario is 2,650.
Michael Hurley, President of CUPE’s OCHU, said the polling paints a stark picture of exhausted nurses who feel unvalued and unsupported.
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Registered practical nurses (RPNs) in Northern Ontario are experiencing greater levels of anxiety, workplace violence, workload pressures and other negative impacts when compared to other RPNs across Ontario.
The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU/CUPE), in an online teleconference, released these finding this week and outlined in an RPN Members’ Survey.
As part of a Zoom news event to release the survey, the union called on some Northern Ontario nurses to comment.
Karen Brosseau, an RPN who has been working in Sudbury for 29 years, said she never thought she would have to work through SARS or the current COVID pandemic.
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Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) in Northern Ontario are experiencing greater levels of anxiety, workplace violence, workload pressures and other negative impacts when compared to other RPNs across Ontario.
The details, outlined in an RPN Members’ Survey, were released Wednesday by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU/CUPE) in an online teleconference.
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Michael Hurley, president of OCHU/CUPE, said it shows action is required to improve the working conditions and pay levels for Ontario’s RPNs.
Mind-Blowing Network of Donors to The Resistance
George Soros, Kelloggs, the food giant, and Fidelity Investments are major donors.
The Resistance movement has broad tentacles and is an umbrella for numerous offshoots. It has been tied to Hillary Clinton, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Indivisibles, Obama’s Organizing for America, and violence in general at Republican representatives’ town halls. The donors follow.
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE DONORS
WK Kellogg, the food giant, $3 million
Ford Foundation, not the Motor Co., $2.35 million
Open Society (Soros), $1.75 million
California Endowment, $524,500
Fidelity Charitable Gift, upon recommendation, $505,100
National Immigration Law Center (open borders), $316, 000
Deepak Bhargava, the executive director of the Center for Community Change, sits on the advisory board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.