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The update offers reasons for optimism.

Among the first Coloradans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 were residents and employees of nursing homes and other senior-care centers in the state. But while these efforts initially seemed to be eliminating outbreaks at such facilities, that's clearly not the case. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has reported nearly 100 outbreaks at health-care sites in the past two weeks, with the category surpassing outbreaks at K-12 schools for the first time in months. The CDPHE considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other ...

VENICE – The Venice City Council gave preliminary approval to an annexation agreement for a five-acre parcel off of Curry Lane and two land use-related ordinances that eventually would allow a 42-bed rehabilitation hospital just south of the new Sarasota Memorial Hospital campus in Venice.  The approvals on the annexation agreement, a future land-use map change, and an ordinance that designated the land for office, professional and institutional, all passed unanimously. Jeff Boone, the attorney for the applicant, Catalyst Healthcare Real Estate, added a stipulation on the land-use desi...

The numbers released by the CDPHE on April 7, however, reflect 626 active and 3,787 resolved outbreaks, adding up to to 4,413 — a leap of 127 outbreaks, and more than a 69 percent increase in a week, to the highest weekly total since January 27, as the state was working through the remnants of a holiday surge. Given the overall rise, it's no surprise that several major outbreak categories saw increases this week. Fresh outbreaks at twelve K-12 schools had been included on March 31; fifteen popped up on April 7. Twelve outbreaks at health-care facilities were announced on March 31 and again ...

Pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS have been vaccinating long-term care residents and staff since December. Now, that program is coming to an end.  Both Walgreens and CVS are wrapping up their third and final vaccine clinics in the coming weeks. But where do long-term care facilities go from here?  Staff turnover is high, and new caregivers will need the vaccine; so will new residents.  David Voepel is the CEO of the Arizona Health Care Association. "So we're hoping that in the very near future, this turns into [something] like a flu vaccine for us," he said. "So that we call our long-...