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How Close Are North Reading Area Hospitals To Capacity? Update - North Reading, MA - New federal data shows how the waning coronavirus pandemic is affecting hospitals in Middlesex County.
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SUDBURY, MA Although health officials warn that it s too soon for the nation to let down its guard in the fight against the coronavirus, many indicators point to a gradual easing of the pandemic, including a sharp drop in the number of new hospitalizations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that admissions of confirmed COVID-19 patients has fallen by two-thirds since their peak in early January, with the seven-day average dropping from 16,540 on Jan. 9 to 5,490 on March 2. The latter figure was nearly 15 percent lower than the week before.
Still, the pressure on hospital capacity has not disappeared, federal figures show.
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WESTON, MA Although health officials warn that it s too soon for the nation to let down its guard in the fight against the coronavirus, many indicators point to a gradual easing of the pandemic, including a sharp drop in the number of new hospitalizations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that admissions of confirmed COVID-19 patients has fallen by two-thirds since their peak in early January, with the seven-day average dropping from 16,540 on Jan. 9 to 5,490 on March 2. The latter figure was nearly 15 percent lower than the week before.
Still, the pressure on hospital capacity has not disappeared, federal figures show.
Former Veterans Affairs hospice nurse in Massachusetts sentenced to prison for stealing morphine meant for dying veterans
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
A 55-year-old Tewksbury woman who worked as a nurse in the hospice unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus in Bedford was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for stealing morphine meant for dying veterans.
Kathleen Noftle was sentenced to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release, court records show. She pleaded guilty in October 2020 to one count of tampering with a consumer product and one count of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception and subterfuge.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, on Jan. 13, 14 and 15, 2017, Noftle used her position as a nurse to obtain doses of morphine that were meant to be given to the veterans under her care in the hospice unit.