Olympia (Wash.) Orthopaedic Associates offers full-service musculoskeletal care for patients throughout Southwest Washington. Here are seven things to know about the practice:
At a Washington State Hospital Association media briefing in November, Nicole Eddins, senior director of ancillary services at Mason Health in Shelton, reported staff at her hospital were working on their days off, enduring 16- to 18-hour shifts and “stretched incredibly thin.”
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Health care organizations around the Northwest are in various stages of inoculating their employees with the new Covid vaccines.
That brings different levels of complications. Those complications include finding enough vaccine to get doses for everyone and then getting them scheduled for shots.
Susan Stacey, the chief nursing officer at Providence Sacred Heart in Spokane, says the health system has vaccinated about 2,000 of its workers.
“We have not seen a significant impact on staffing for the vaccine. One of the things we have been doing is asking our caregivers proactively to schedule their vaccinations at the end of a stretch, just to minimize effects, she said.