Can patient ask if health care worker vaccinated?
Question can be put forth, but caregivers are not required to answer By Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times
Published: May 11, 2021, 6:05am
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As more people are vaccinated and once again going to hospitals and clinics for checkups after many routine interactions were pushed online the past year, there is one question patients want to know: Has my health care provider been vaccinated against COVID-19?
It is a question patients might not get answered. State and federal laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, fondly known as HIPAA, protect the medical privacy of nurses and doctors, just as it does for patients.
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SILVERDALE, Wash., May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ St. Michael Medical Center, as part of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, is announcing the opening of the St. Michael Cancer Center and St. Michael Medical Pavilion this month. The 55,000 square-foot Cancer Center and 65,000 square-foot Medical Pavilion mark the completion of the campus expansion in Silverdale.
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St. Michael Cancer Center Hematology and Oncology Patient Reception, Silverdale, WA
St. Michael Medical Pavilion, Silverdale, WA
St. Michael Medical Pavilion Patient Reception, Silverdale, WA The opening of the St. Michael Cancer Center and Medical Pavilion is another important milestone in our effort to expand high-quality care and access for the communities across the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, said Ketul J. Patel, CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. We are grateful to our entire team for their tireless work to bring this vision to
Mariners to open vaccinated-only sections with $10 tickets, perks for vaccinated fans
By Q13 News Staff
Rainiers debut vaccinated sections at opening night
The Tacoma Rainiers are offering a section for fully vaccinated fans starting Thursday night for their opening night.
SEATTLE - The Seattle Mariners are the latest team to open vaccinated-only sections at T-Mobile Park, allowing 5,000 more vaccinated fans to attend home games for as little as $10. Getting vaccinated is the single most important thing we can all do to protect ourselves, our families and our community. Encouraging vaccinations and helping make them accessible to everyone will save lives, said John Stanton, Seattle Mariners Chairman and Managing Partner. And once enough people are vaccinated, we can all get back to the things we love to do, like sitting with family and friends and enjoying a night at the ballpark.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday set a goal of delivering shots to 70 per cent of U.S. adults by July 4. Such a goal, if met, would fit in with the best-case scenarios, said one of the study s co-authors, CDC biologist Michael Johansson.
Under more pessimistic scenarios, with subpar vaccinations and declining use of masks and physical distancing, weekly cases probably would still drop but could number in the hundreds of thousands, with tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths.
More than 500K deaths
All the projections trend down, illustrating the powerful effect of the vaccination campaign.
But there s a devastating difference between the more gently sloping declines in some scenarios and the more dramatic drops in others, said Jennifer Kates, director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.