Nursing homes fight isolation in lockdown with furry robots
MARDI LINK, Traverse City Record-Eagle
April 3, 2021
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EAST JORDAN, Mich. (AP) Mary Ecker is one of about 100 elders who live at Grandvue Medical Care Facility, a county-owned nursing home a few blocks from the south arm of Lake Charlevoix.
Outgoing and naturally optimistic, Ecker has lived at Grandvue for 16 years. She’s happy there, yet said she feels nostalgic for the small farm in Burt, a four-corners near Saginaw, where she grew up.
She especially misses the family’s dogs.
“I’ve had dogs all my life,” Ecker told the Traverse City Record-Eagle. “If you would come in my room right now, you would see nothing but pictures of dogs. I like any kind of dog, but I favor the smaller ones.”
Why Tennessee seniors are still dying from COVID-19
VINCENT GABRIELLE, Knoxville News Sentinel
April 3, 2021
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1of3Workers organize paperwork and medical supplies as people wait in their cars to get a COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, March 12, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. As millions continue to wait their turn for the COVID-19 vaccine, small but steady amounts of the precious doses have gone to waste across the country. It s a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged was always likely to occur.Adrian Sainz/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3A woman arrives for her first dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine Friday, March 12, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. As millions continue to wait their turn for the COVID-19 vaccine, small but steady amounts of the precious doses have gone to waste across the country. It s a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged was always likely to occur.Mark Humphrey/APShow MoreShow Less
RALEIGH Highlighting the importance of healthy, caring connections and the presence of protective factors in families and communities, Governor Roy Cooper declared April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (PCANC) are recognizing the role all North Carolinians play in building caring connections, supportive environments and positive experiences for all children and families during Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.
April is a time to for North Carolina community members to learn the important role they play in fostering the safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments that build a strong foundation for healthy child development, said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D.
(The Center Square) â Democrats are turning up the pressure on Republican Gov. Chris Sununu over his administration s handling of a COVID-19 outbreak at a veterans home that sickened nearly 200 and killed 37 elderly residents.
In a letter to Sununuâs office, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley rips the governor s sham
report on the outbreak and requests documents related to the stateâs response to the outbreak at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton and a report that cleared officials at the long-term care facility of wrongdoing. Despite calls from New Hampshire veterans and civic leaders, you have failed to produce an independent report to examine what caused this outbreak, what could have prevented it, and what could have been done to protect our veterans during the outbreak, Buckley wrote in the March 25 letter.
Detroit church opens doors for Easter amid COVID-19 surge
April 4, 2021
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DETROIT (AP) A historic Detroit church reopened its doors Easter Sunday for in-person services for the first time in over a year, a move that comes amid a statewide COVID-19 surge.
Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, which was closed last Easter for the first time in its more than 100-year history, limited worshippers and required masks Sunday. Christians worldwide marked a second Easter Sunday marked by pandemic precautions.
“We believe that the church should be a part of the resurrection of our society, and an effort to return to a sense of normalcy,” the Rev. Charles Christian Adams told The Detroit Free Press. We know that other sectors of society are doing it. Restaurants have reopened, they’re letting people in to athletic events, the malls are open, and all of those people are laying it all on the line to get society going again. And we feel that the church should not sit o