Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Mexico State University faced many unprecedented challenges. While a few factors remain uncertain, a new partnership has created several positive outcomes, along with future opportunities that will help faculty and students involved in research. Volunteers conduct COVID-19 testing for a random sample study by a group of New Mexico State University interdisciplinary researchers seeking to understand the prevalence of the virus in the campus community. The tests were processed at the NMSU TriCore branch lab as part of a partnership with Albuquerque-based TriCore Reference Laboratories. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman) This summer, New Mexico State University partnered with TriCore Reference Laboratories to establish a branch lab at Foster Hall on the NMSU campus. (Courtesy photo)
California s Hospital Crisis: What Lies Ahead
As COVID infections and hospitalizations mount in California, ICU availability dropped to zero in Southern and Central California. Demand for hospital care is also outstripping supply in New Mexico. December 21, 2020, 12pm PST | Irvin Dawid Share
Robert V Schwemmer
We ve been here before in the pandemic. First in the spring in New York City, then the summer in Arizona and South Texas. On December 10, it was New Mexico s turn to activate the crisis standards of care, a protocol for determining who receives treatment, and, as William Haseltine, a former Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health professor, bluntly told CNN on July 8 regarding the hospital crisis in Arizona:
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The healthcare industry has six big challenges ahead in 2021: rightsizing after the telehealth explosion; adjusting to changing clinical trials; encouraging digital relationships that ease physician burdens; forecasting for an uncertain 2021; reshaping health portfolios for growth; and building a resilient and responsive supply chain for long-term health.
For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. HRI also interviewed numerous thought leaders from throughout the industry and frontline clinicians to understand their on-the-ground experiences during a historic year.
“While in 2020 many healthcare organizations saw their financial plans obliterated, patient behaviors radically shift and virtual care explode, in 2021 they will work to put the system back together,” said PwC
COVID-19 vaccines arrive in New Mexico
Last updated 12/16/2020 at 11:44am
New Mexico received its first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Christus St. Vincent hospital in Santa Fe was the first facility to receive the vaccine early Monday morning, and began administering it to frontline healthcare workers. For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.
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