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Two Geisinger hospitals earn highest score for quality
May 10, 2021 GMT
DANVILLE, Pa., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Geisinger Lewistown and Geisinger Wyoming Valley hospitals earned the highest score for quality from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), joining an elite group of hospitals across the country with 5-Star ratings for 2021.
CMS rated more than 4,500 hospitals from 1 to 5 stars as part of its annual overall quality scores, with fewer than 14% of all hospitals, and only 22 facilities in Pennsylvania, receiving 5 stars. This rating puts both hospitals among the top 25% in Geisinger’s 44-county service area.
May 10, 2021
The State of Michigan has updated testing requirements for long-term care facilities.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Friday revised its epidemic order for COVID-19 testing to reflect current guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The big change is that effective immediately, fully vaccinated staff no longer must be routinely tested. This extends to staff working skilled nursing facilities, homes for the aged, and adult foster care facilities licensed to care for 13 or more individuals.
MDHHS Director Elizabeth Hertel said, in a release, that the increases they are seeing in Michiganders receiving the vaccine, including among long-term care patients and staff, has allowed them to make this revision.
Yale: Nursing home workers faced difficult work conditions during pandemic
Mary E. O’Leary
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The Sterling Law Building photographed on October 2, 2018 houses the Yale Law School in New Haven.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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NEW HAVEN Understaffing, lack of protective clothing and COVID testing, low wages and little state accountability are among the findings in a report on the working conditions at nursing homes during the pandemic.
The Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School issued the document Monday on behalf of SEIU District 1199 New England as the nursing home industry has been put on notice of a potential strike by some 3,300 workers starting this week.
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BOSTON, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital therapeutics, has named Maulik Majmudar, MD, a cardiologist and leader in digital health transformation, as its chief medical officer. Dr. Majmudar will lead the expansion of the company s clinical care services including near-term plans to offer in-home provider services that complement its robust care-at-home technology platform.
Most recently, Dr. Majmudar served as Medical Officer at Amazon, where he led several healthcare-related initiatives, including the development and launch of Amazon Halo, a health and wellness membership service targeted to consumers. Before Amazon, Dr. Majmudar was associate director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, where he was responsible for the identification, validation and implementation of digital health solutions
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