The Trump Administration has little COVID-19 guidance for when families will be able to visit loved ones in nursing homes.
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Physician Assistant Pay Topped $113K Before Coronavirus Cut Hours And Jobs
Physician assistant compensation eclipsed $113,000 on average last year, but 2020 is likely to be a different story as reports of layoffs, furloughs and hour cuts amid the Coronavirus pandemic take toll.
U.S. Preps Nursing Homes For Re-Opening To Visitors With ‘Rigorous’ Worker Coronavirus Testing
Before re-opening for patient visitors, nursing homes should testing all health workers inside weekly for the Coronavirus strain Covid-19 to ensure the facilities are virus free, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Monday.
Here Is How Hospitals Can Start Accepting More Non-Coronavirus Patients
Hospital design experts Ryan Hullinger and Sarah Markovitz explain the many design changes that can help reopen hospitals for non-coronavirus patients, with many of them occurring before a patient sets foot on hospital grounds.
There Are Tough Financial Days Ahead For U.S. Healthcare In The Wake Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
Dr. Stephen Thomas, Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Upstate Medical University, discusses the financial toll that the Covid-19 pandemic is taking on U.S. healthcare systems, and what the road ahead looks like.
U.S. Employers More Concerned With Clean Work Spaces Than Coronavirus Antibody Tests
U.S. employers are more focused on social distancing, clean workspaces and allowing workers to work from home than testing for Covid-19 antibodies, big purchasers of healthcare say.
With New York Deal, CVS Health Broadens U.S. Coronavirus Testing
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sunday announced a new partnership with drugstore giant CVS Health designed to help double capacity in the state to test for the Coronavirus strain Covid-19.
Install Pop-Up Cycleways, NHS Bosses Urge U.K. Councils
NHS CEOs call for more pop-up cycleways and widened sidewalks to aid key workers getting to and from work.
Africa Is Using Lessons From AIDS Pandemic To Fight Coronavirus. Will The U.S.?
African health experts say hard lessons learned during the AIDS pandemic is helping them to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, even as they predict life-saving tests and medicines will arrive in African countries long after they will be available in Europ…
This Is How Disease Outbreaks Like The Coronavirus Pandemic Occur – And How They Can Be Stopped
Biodefense expert Dr. Mark Kortepeter, who has been on the front lines of multiple epidemics, describes the different ways that disease can spread, and how those diseases can be contained.
