Rainbow baby arrives 6 seconds after midnight
Gia Elise Barcus-Gray was one of the first babies born during the early morning hours of 2021 in Colorado. Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Updated: 10:35 PM MST January 1, 2021
COLORADO, USA One of the first, if not the first, baby born in the new year in Colorado is a rainbow baby who arrived just six seconds after midnight on Jan. 1.
Gia Elise Barcus-Gray weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces, according to Swedish Medical Center.
She was born to parents Michael and Aaron Barcus-Gray. She is our miracle rainbow baby and we could not be happier, said mom Michael.
A rainbow baby is a name coined for a healthy baby born after losing a baby due to miscarriage or other causes.
This small device helps health workers detect potential effects of COVID-19 vaccine
UCHealth is having its staff and providers wear a BioButton, developed by a Golden company, as part of its post-vaccine monitoring program. Author: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Updated: 11:17 AM MST December 20, 2020
DENVER As medical workers begin to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, a local hospital system is deploying a wearable device made by a Golden company to monitor their health.
Some recipients of of the vaccine at UCHealth will be wearing a BioButton, a medical device the size of a coin that does continuous monitoring of the wearer s vital signs, such as temperature, respiratory rate and heart rate, UCHealth said.
December 15, 2020
A group of nurses and other health care workers at UCHealth announced Tuesday that they are forming a union aimed at addressing longstanding concerns about staffing, workplace safety and inadequate patient care across Colorado s largest hospital system.
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UCHealth Workers United says it will organize staff members across all job titles and locations in the UCHealth system, which employs more than 24,000 people at seven major hospitals and dozens of clinics across the state. UCHWU is organizing under Communications Workers of America Local 7799.
In a press release, the group said that its members, including many UCHealth nurses, have long feared that low staffing levels and high turnover rates were putting the quality of patient care within the hospital system at risk. The coronavirus pandemic has only strained Colorado hospital capacity further and exacerbated those concerns, a situation that the group described as a crisis within a crisis.
Gov. Jared Polis received the state s first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday morning. Author: Bobbi Sheldon, Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Dacia Johnson (9NEWS) Published: 6:04 AM MST December 14, 2020 Updated: 10:15 PM MST December 14, 2020
DENVER The state s first COVID-19 vaccines were administered to frontline health-care workers Monday afternoon after Colorado received its first shipment of Pfizer s vaccine Monday morning.
“This is just the start of the distribution,” Gov. Jared Polis said. “It’ll help protect some of our most vulnerable, the tireless COVID workers who work in COVID wards every day, and then more will become available for the general population to help end the pandemic.