COVID vaccine update for Montana
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PA Tim Street receives COVID vaccine from nurse Karen Slotness at Great Falls Clinic on Wednesday, December 18
Posted at 12:11 PM, Dec 18, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-18 19:55:25-05
GREAT FALLS â Governor Steve Bullock on Friday announced that the second-week round of allocations of COVID-19 vaccines will be designated for healthcare workers at rural hospitals, and staff and residents of long-term care facilities. He also said that the stateâs anticipated allocation of vaccine doses through the end of the year has been reduced by the federal government by 20% from 60,000 down to 48,000 along with other states across the nation.
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Many rural areas avoided the worst of the pandemic in its early stages. Now, it seems the coronavirus is everywhere, straining hospitals that have fewer resources to address an ongoing health crisis.
Hospitals with fewer beds fill quickly during a pandemic. On Thursday, nearly half of the patients hospitalized at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln were COVID-19 patients. It was soon apparent in talking with Dr. William Lytollis how busy they are. As he spoke, a medical alert blared through the speakers overhead.
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital CEO Dolan Dalpoas said his staff has been versatile in taking on added jobs to cover for coworkers sidelined by COVID.
Great Falls residents receive COVID vaccine
MATT HOLZAPFEL - KRTV
PA Tim Street receives COVID vaccine from nurse Karen Slotness at Great Falls Clinic on Wednesday, December 18
and last updated 2020-12-16 20:20:31-05
GREAT FALLS â On Wednesday afternoon, several people became the first to receive the COVID vaccine in Great Falls.
It happened at the Great Falls Clinic Hospital. The first dose was received by Tim Street, a physician assistant, and it was administered by Karen Slotness, a nurse in the COVID unit/Inpatient Department. âTell me when youâre gonna do it,â Tim joked right after receiving the shot. There was a moment of laughter and some applause. It was a moment that millions have been hoping for and looking forward to for months.
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Non-surgical extended duration therapeutic services (NSEDTS) are services which have a significant monitoring component that can: extend for a lengthy period of time, are not surgical, and typically have a low risk of complications after the assessment at the beginning of the service. In 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established the minimum NSEDTS level of supervision as “direct supervision during the initiation of the service, which may be followed by general supervision at the discretion of the supervising physician or the appropriate nonphysician practitioner.”
1 In March 2020, CMS assigned on an interim basis a minimum required level of general supervision for NSEDTS services, including during the initiation portion of the service, in response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE).
Adena taking steps to meet Covid challenges
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CHILLICOTHE, OH (Dec. 10) – Dire circumstances often require creative responses. That’s certainly been the case for Adena Health System in the midst of its largest COVID-19 patient surge since the pandemic began in the spring.
In addition to challenges created by recent rapid and marked increases in COVID positive patient volumes, mounting hospitalizations across the region also have virtually eliminated the possibility of being able to transfer patients to other health systems when Coronavirus surge numbers exceed Adena Regional Medical Center’s (ARMC) 30-bed COVID cohort unit’s capacity.
In order to continue providing the most comprehensive care, not only for its COVID-19 patients but those utilizing other medical services in the communities served by Adena, the Health System has turned to several new initiatives and solutions for meeting the challenges presented by COVID-19.