UR Medicine and Rochester Regional Health are preparing for possible staff shortages as the deadline for vaccinating health care workers nears. These workers are expected to be immunized with at least one vaccine dose against COVID-19 by Sept. 27.
Health & Science
Effort to boost vaccination rates gets funding
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A $1 million federal grant has been awarded to the project, which is aimed at high-need minority groups in the Finger Lakes region and poor communities in rural Upstate New York.
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Can nursing homes withstand another surge?
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With COVID-19 cases increasing again, long-term care operators are beset with staffing challenges and cost pressures.
Health & Science
Berk pens book with insights from a life-altering injury
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In a new book, former URMC CEO Bradford Berk M.D. writes about the 2009 bike accident that left him a quadriplegic and what he has learned about dealing with grief and trauma from acute neurological injury.
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Rochester RHIO names new chief executive
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John Sheehan, a health care administration veteran, will succeed retiring President and CEO Jill Eisenstein.
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The pandemic’s racial disparities
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People of color have been impacted disproportionately by COVID-19, and hurdles remain in the effort to vaccinate the entire Rochester community.
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A new path to value-based care of chronic diseases
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Rochester Regional Health is part of a national council working to implement lifestyle medicine as way to prevent and treat conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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URMC researchers to study mixing COVID vaccines
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The “mix-and-match trial” could answer whether booster doses different from original vaccines are safe and effective in fighting off SAR-CoV-2 and variants.
Environment
UR’s Environmental Health Sciences Center gets federal boost
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The center, which studies how exposure to environmental agents impacts human health, recently received a $7.7 million, five-year renewal federal grant.
GUEST OPINION
Stop drug testing mothers and babies without consent
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Screening of pregnant women and newborns is a practice that disproportionately targets Blacks. The state Legislature should pass stricter rules.
Health & Science
Finding Loretta: a family’s history with mental illness
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Children of parents with mental health issues such as bipolar disorder and depression are at higher risk to develop the same. But talking openly and seeking treatment can help.