A spotlight on Pam Shilts, Regional Clinical Consultant
Pam Shilts has been a long-time nursing leader tenaciously shaping the direction of Volunteers of America healthcare services in rural Western Colorado over the better part of 40 years. Her story begins with an early involvement in long-term care for a loved one – her grandfather.
In the 1970s, Pam Shilts’ grandfather Raleigh Leroy (Red) Hindman was a resident...
Massachusetts is offering a shot to anyone who accompanies an older resident to a mass vaccination site. A W.H.O. panel recommends AstraZeneca’s vaccine even in countries where variants have been found. New York’s governor says arenas and stadiums can open this month with spectators, at very limited capacity.
The C.D.C. says tight-fit masks or double masking with cloth and surgical masks increases protection.
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Just as predicted before the rollout began, vaccine hesitancy among nursing home workers stands as a serious barrier to widespread acceptance in long-term care — and, in turn, fully fostering group immunity among the most vulnerable.
Battered by COVID-19 and unwilling to trust the institutions that oversaw the deaths of their patients and colleagues, a significant percentage of frontline caregivers have said no to the coronavirus...
A committee of leading U.S. vaccine scientists recommended Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the first COVID-19 vaccine for Americans.
The endorsement paves the way for a final decision by the FDA and mass vaccinations to begin within days in thousands of front-line heath care workers and nursing home residents.
After an eight-hour public hearing, the independent Vaccines and Related Biological...
Thanks in part to a $120,000 grant, the Nile Sisters Development Initiative Thursday expanded LearnMore , a vocational nurse assistant training program to help underserved communities prepare for in- demand health care careers.
According to the local displaced-persons-focused nonprofit, the grant was provided by The San Diego Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Fund , and will allow the program to offer...
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) - Archer City High School students now have the chance to start college early by graduating high school with two medical certificates: one as a certified nursing assistant, and the other as a clinical medical assistant.
Justin Sanders, the continuing education coordinator at Vernon College for Allied Health, said he was noticing more and more high school students from Archer City traveling to...
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For Northeastern University Professor Andrea Grimes Parker and her colleagues, their research in this discipline of applied science led to the development of fitness trackers that aid vulnerable and marginalised populations.
“Existing fitness platforms focus so much on goal setting, data...