UVA nurses required to work extra shifts as hospital faces staff shortage
UVA Health facing nursing shortage, requiring extra shifts from nurses and technicians By Elizabeth Holmes | January 29, 2021 at 6:33 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 10:47 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Nurses in the University of Virginia Medical Center are now being asked to take on extra shifts which, according to the hospital, is a temporary cautionary measure.
New policy, released January 10, states UVA nursing and technician staff will need to take on two additional 12-hour shifts within a six-week schedule period. Nurses will receive hazard pay for those extra shifts. Staff can request someone else to work the new required shifts, should they not be able to do so.
BRHD and UVA Health System launch new COVID-19 vaccination site
BRHD and UVA Health launch new COVID-19 vaccination site By Riley Wyant | January 29, 2021 at 7:29 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 7:31 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - University of Virginia Health System and the Blue Ridge Health District are launching a new COVID-19 vaccination site in Charlottesville. They are hoping this will pick up the pace of vaccine distribution.
UVA Health will give the vaccines at Seminole Square in a building next to Marshalls starting on Sunday. The Blue Ridge Health District is overseeing the distribution as a whole.
“It’s a larger space so we’ll have the capability of providing more vaccinations, as long as we have the supply,” UVA Medical Center CEO Wendy Horton said. “That will be an efficient vaccination location.”
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Life changed dramatically in 2020. When the World Health Organization declared a COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, hundreds of millions of people across the globe were forced to change how they go about their daily lives, including how they exercise.
Health-conscious adults accustomed to exercising at local gyms had to find new ways to exercise in the wake of the pandemic. Many gyms were forced to close in areas hit hard by COVID-19, and that left many people without access to fitness equipment like weights and cardiovascular machines. Resilient men and women soon found ways to exercise, and many of them embraced walking.