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So was the requirement to report workers admitted for treatment of COVID-19.
So were the requirements for health care facilities to adopt standards and protocols to lessen exposure risks and submit internal exposure analyses to the Health Department.
The data on positive cases and deaths of health care workers doesn’t have to be posted on the Health Department website, either.
Instead, the Health Department must issue a report “no later than 12 months after the end of both the state of emergency and public health emergency declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The revisions effectively gutted a bill designed with public transparency in mind so the public could understand COVID’s impact on the front-line workers that they and political leaders have praised through 11 months of the pandemic as essential heroes.
So was the requirement to report workers admitted for treatment of COVID-19.
So were the requirements for health care facilities to adopt standards and protocols to lessen exposure risks and submit internal exposure analyses to the Health Department.
The data on positive cases and deaths of health care workers doesn’t have to be posted on the Health Department website, either.
Instead, the Health Department must issue a report “no later than 12 months after the end of both the state of emergency and public health emergency declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The revisions effectively gutted a bill designed with public transparency in mind so the public could understand COVID’s impact on the front-line workers that they and political leaders have praised through 11 months of the pandemic as essential heroes.
NJHA Announces Free Webinars on Coping and Resiliency During Pandemic through New EdPower Platform
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PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the New Jersey Hospital Association announced the release of a series of free on-demand wellness webinars, developed by mental health professionals to provide coping and resiliency skills. The webinars are available to both healthcare professionals and the general public.
The series of seven programs can be found on NJHA EdPower, a new learning management system that provides a wide array of flexible, on-demand educational offerings.
In a November 2020 study, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 37.4 percent of New Jersey adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder on more than half of the days in a week. The review was conducted over four weeks in September and October.
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March 19, 2020: Ranvir Singh, RN, cares for a patient in the intensive care unit at Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck.
Like something from science fiction, 2020 was upended by a minute, spike-crowned virus that spread aggressively among people, caused unprecedented disease and death, and altered the way we do everything from celebrate holidays to vote for president.
The novel coronavirus put immense stress on all our public structures, but the impact was particularly profound for health care systems nationwide and in New Jersey, which was among the first states to diagnose cases of COVID-19 the disease caused by the virus and which remains among those hardest-hit by the pandemic.