By Marie K Tomlin
May 11, 2021
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Central Virginia Business Coalition is hosting a Healthcare Heroes Parade to honor caregivers that are on the front lines of the healthcare system.
The parade will begin at EC Glass High School at 12:00 noon and the parade route will continue down Langhorne Rd. to Lynchburg General Hospital and finish at Virginia Baptist Hospital.
New Country 107.9 YYD s Scott Stevens will be participating in the Lynchburg parade, playing music and waving from the driver s seat.
In addition, the Bedford Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Healthcare Heroes Parade Wednesday, May 12 on the campus of Bedford Memorial Hospital at 1613 Oakwood St. in Bedford starting at 12:00 noon.
Surveys focused on the health needs and priorities for people living in Central Virginia are being collected once again by Centra Health to help steer community efforts to improve resident health, especially among more vulnerable populations.
The Community Health Needs Assessment is something required of Centra every three years as a tax-exempt hospital system. It entails survey-based data collection from Centraâs catchment region â divvied into three parts that focus on the Lynchburg, Bedford and Farmville areas â thatâs wrapped into a report published at the end of the year, followed by implementation plans specific to each area.
Collaboration among community partners is a key part of the process, and the first stakeholder meetings for both the Bedford and Lynchburg groups are being held this week.
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Acceleration of the coronavirusâ spread from the holidays has raised red flags among Lynchburg-area health professionals, as more than 100 COVID-19 patients have been reliably occupying about a third of local hospital beds.
Centra Health CEO Dr. Andy Mueller said at a Thursday news conference the providerâs coronavirus numbers have been âincredibly dramatic and something that I didnât think that we would honestly ever get to.â
Though Centraâs health system has been able to bend to accommodate fluctuating levels of patients whose symptoms are severe enough to require care, he said âweâre starting to get close to the breaking point.â
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