When kids under 5 get COVID-19, parents are screwed
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by Shefali Luthra | The 19th
2y ago
Catherine Dicicco and her husband both got vaccinated, then boosted. They wore masks and limited social activities to outside, with a small circle of friends. Dicicco, an occupational therapist in Tennessee, just wanted to keep her infant twins from getting COVID-19. But on January 5, the twins’ first birthday, both boys tested positive for the virus. Soon the whole family fell ill. And while for Dicicco and her husband the virus was like a bad cold or a mild flu, shortly after the positive test one of her sons ended up in the hospital for two days. “I literally hear his every breath. And he ..read more
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Saint Francis sues Hartford HealthCare, claims anti-competitive practices
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by Dave Altimari
2y ago
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org Saint Francis Hospital main entrance on Woodland Street in Hartford. Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has sued Hartford HealthCare and its subsidiaries, including Hartford Hospital, claiming that it is trying to create a monopoly on hospital services by acquiring physician networks, particularly cardiologists, and demanding that they refer their patients only to Hartford HealthCare.  The 75-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven alleges “a campaign of exclusion, acquisition and intimidation” and claims that Hartford HealthCare execu ..read more
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CT legislative leaders: Mental health system in ‘deep crisis’ is priority in 2022 session
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by Mark Pazniokas
2y ago
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org A waiting area in the emergency department of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Top House and Senate leaders said Tuesday that addressing Connecticut’s overburdened and understaffed mental health system for children and adults will be a bipartisan priority when the General Assembly convenes next month. House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, told participants in an online mental health symposium he is optimistic about the potential for significant legislation emerging from a bipartisan working group. “This is a unique moment in time that we can’t m ..read more
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Hospitals recruit international nurses to fill pandemic shortages
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by Nick Ehli | Kaiser Health News
2y ago
BILLINGS, Mont. — Before Mary Venus was offered a nursing job at a hospital here, she’d never heard of Billings or visited the United States. A native of the Philippines, she researched her prospective move via the internet, set aside her angst about the cold Montana winters and took the job, sight unseen. Venus has been in Billings since mid-November, working in a surgical recovery unit at Billings Clinic, Montana’s largest hospital in its most populous city. She and her husband moved into an apartment, bought a car and are settling in. They recently celebrated their first wedding anniversar ..read more
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Home births rise in Connecticut as pandemic prompts women to seek alternatives to hospitals
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by Harriet Jones | C-HIT.ORG
2y ago
Cameron English got comfortable on the cushioned green exam table as her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter played nearby. Initially, as midwife Carolyn Greenfield swept a monitor over English’s pregnant belly, there was only an indistinct swoosh. But before long, the instrument found and amplified a distinctive, quick double thump. English was all smiles, hearing her baby’s heartbeat for the first time. After English’s first three children were born in a hospital, she had her fourth child at home in 2020, attended by Greenfield, a certified professional midwife. She wants the same experi ..read more
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For some trans people, how family handle names and pronouns can make or break the holiday
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by Kate Sosin | The 19th
2y ago
It was a box of ornaments that meant the most to Grayson Thate. They were made of wood, glass, hot glue and string — hand-painted shapes from his childhood. He had looked at them his whole life. But that Christmas of 2017, as he unwrapped the trinkets that his mom had shipped him, he noticed something new. “I realized that she had found a paint color that was a perfect match to each ornament, and she had painted over my deadname and replaced it with ‘Grayson,’” he said. Deadname is what transgender people often call a name they were assigned at birth and used before transition. Thate, who was ..read more
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The year of the vaccine: How Connecticut dealt with COVID in 2021
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by Jenna Carlesso
2y ago
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Gov. Ned Lamont and health care workers clapped after Dr. Ajay Kumar, executive vice president and chief clinical officer at Hartford HealthCare, became the first person in CT to receive the COVID-19 vaccine last year. Just over a year ago, a cadre of doctors, nurses and other health care workers gathered under a canopy in the driving rain outside Hartford Hospital. They watched as Dr. Ajay Kumar, the chief clinical officer, became the first person in Connecticut to be inoculated against COVID-19. Others stood in line for their turn. The day swelled with the promi ..read more
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More states to provide free COVID home test kits
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by Michael Ollove | Pew Stateline
2y ago
New Jersey announced a few days ago that it is joining New Hampshire and Washington state in sending free COVID-19 testing kits to the homes of residents who request them. New Hampshire made rapid tests available late last month, while Washington state began offering them to residents of nine counties starting in mid-November. Meanwhile, Massachusetts announced Tuesday that it will send 2 million free rapid test kits to 102 cities and towns in the state that have the highest proportion of families living in poverty, so officials can distribute to them residents. Unlike those states, New Jerse ..read more
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With medical bills soaring, nonprofits, crowdfunding, payment plans offer some debt relief
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by Sujata Srinivasan | C-HIT.ORG
2y ago
In February, Lori Dingwell of Waterbury tested positive for COVID-19. She says she has yet to recover fully. The 53-year-old has seen her primary care physician, a neurologist, ophthalmologist, retinal specialist, infectious disease expert, and rheumatologist. After a host of scans, blood tests and “an abnormal spinal tap,” Dingwell—a member of the COVID long-hauler support group Survivor Corps—said physicians had no answers to help explain her malady. Adding to her woes, she racked up nearly $10,000 in medical debt. “I have it down to maybe $7,700, but it could go up,” said Dingwell, a forme ..read more
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Rural midwives fill gap as hospitals cut childbirth services
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by Aallyah Wright | Stateline
2y ago
For the past year or so, Toni Hill, a midwife in the lowlands of northern Mississippi, has received an influx of calls from women across the state who live in areas with no hospitals and only a smattering of health care providers. As COVID-19 rates increased, some pregnant women did not feel safe receiving care in a hospital or were unable to contact their providers. Others, who lived in the Mississippi Delta, did not have transportation for the three-plus hour trip to Jackson, the state capital. Hill quickly found herself very overwhelmed, she said. On most days, Hill is stretched thin: cond ..read more
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