Senate Bill 579 would require hands-free paper towel dispensers and a device that allows someone to exit without touching the door handle at all public restrooms in Maryland health care facilities by Jan. 1, 2023.
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As reports emerge across the country of health facilities throwing out unused and spoiled COVID-19 vaccines, some state governments are failing to track the wastage as required by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leaving officials coordinating immunization efforts blind to exactly how many of the precious, limited doses are going into the trash and why.
In Washington, a health facility allegedly threw out some COVID-19 vaccine doses at the end of workers’ shifts because staff believed state guidelines blocked them from giving unused shots to people below the top priority tier. In Maryland, workers appear to have tossed thawed doses when they ran out of time to administer them safely. How many doses, exactly, have been wasted in those states is unknown because neither state is tracking unused or wasted vaccines.
Aya Healthcare s Qualivis To Acquire the Chesapeake Registry Program
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Qualivis, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aya Healthcare, announced a definitive agreement to acquire the Chesapeake Registry Program, a division of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA). The acquisition is expected to close on March 1, 2021. COVID-19 has made staffing needs increasingly urgent and critical to expand capacity, said Meghan McClelland, chief operating officer of Maryland Hospital Association. Our most important job is to respond to the needs of our members, so we re pleased to join forces with Qualivis to simplify, enhance and streamline the entire staffing process from end to end.