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Santa Clara County's health care system plans to bring much-needed services to the Palo Alto-Mountain View area with a new Valley Health Center, which is set to open in the fall of 2024. The 24,500-square-foot planned facility, located at 4151 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto, will offer a full range of primary care services that includes mental health, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics and urgent care with laboratory, pharmacy and imaging services available on-site. "For the first time in our county's 172-year history, folks in need of affordable health care will be able to get that care at a county facility when they need it, where they need it, right here in the north county," county Supervisor Joe Simitian said at a press conference on Thursday. Simitian, who has long advocated for a full-service health clinic in District 5, spoke to a crowd of about 35 representatives from nonprofits and health care providers; community leaders; and elected officials from Palo Alto...

By: BrightStar Care |  4 Shares     195 Reads November 29, 2022 // Franchising.com // CHICAGO - Chamberlain University announces the launch of a home health specialty initiative with funds from a $1.2 million grant from the American Nurses Foundation's Reimagining Nursing Initiative (RN Initiative) awarded to Chamberlain in May for its Practice Ready. Specialty Focused.™ perioperative nursing program. Home health was chosen as the next specialty to address the dire need of staff in continuing care and home health. Chamberlain has formed a partnership with BrightStar Care to develop an online didactic course, Introduction to Continuing Health (ICH), to be used in Chamberlain's nursing programs. Students who complete and pass the course, which is offered at no additional cost and funded by BrightStar Care, have the option to spend 96 hours of clinical time at BrightStar Care and other home health partners. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In comparison to flu seasons past, experts say this one is looking like it's going to be a doozy ― particularly for children. The good news is the flu vaccine is spot on, and while it may not keep kids from getting the flu, it could keep them out of the hospital. That is, if parents and kids make sure to get it. Kids typically get a number of respiratory viruses throughout the fall and winter, including flu, RSV and more recently, COVID-19. Most of the time the peaks of circulating viruses are staggered, but this year the three viruses have clustered together, resulting in more infections, hospitalizations and deaths than in years prior, and straining pediatric hospitals around the country. In addition to the ongoing waves of COVID-19, this fall clinics and hospitals were caught off-guard by an uncharacteristically early wave of Respiratory Syncytial Virus ― a virus that produces symptoms ranging from a mild cold in older children to severe infections of the lungs...

A child with a measles rash. Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) A measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio has sickened over 80 children and hospitalized dozens. The majority of these cases have involved unvaccinated children who were nonetheless eligible for vaccination. It is not yet clear how long the outbreak will continue, with the most recent case having been detected just last week. Watch CC Off English 988—The New National Suicide Prevention Hotline 01:41 Now playing Mental Health Apps Are a Privacy Nightmare May 3, 2022 03:58 Now playing Won't Virtual Reality Make Me Sick? December 15, 2022 Columbus Public Health officials first reported the outbreak in early November, though the first known cases are now believed to have begun in mid-October. According to the CPH's publicly available ...

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PORTSMOUTH — A local family physician is about to bring free health care to the greater Seacoast and Tri-City areas for people who are without health insurance or are underinsured. And she hopes to recruit more people willing to help her make this venture succeed. Dr. Reiko Johnson will begin her free clinics Jan. 10 at the Cross Roads House in Portsmouth and the Willand Drive Warming Center in Somersworth. The program, Volunteers in Medicine-New Hampshire (VIM-NH) is modeled on a nationwide group of free health care clinics. Johnson said she is drawing on her experience volunteering for five years with a former free clinic in Hampton, which was founded by Dr. Jay Kaminski, ran for 18 years and closed in 2016. "I learned so much from being there, observing and experiencing the free care that was provided," she said, noting the clinic ran in front of a soup kitchen in a borrowed mobile van. "It ran with very little funds, without much need for grants or big fundraisers. I...

HELENA — A federal judge has struck down parts of Montana's "vaccine discrimination" law, ruling it unconstitutional in regard to employers and employees of health care settings. Montana's HB 702 prevents employers in Montana from discriminating against an individual due to their vaccination status, effectively preventing employers from requiring any kind of vaccine for employment. The Montana Medical Association, Montana Nurses Association, a number of medical facilities and impacted individuals challenged the law saying it "jeopardizes physicians' ability to maintain best practices now in place for protecting patients and staff from vaccine-preventable diseases" and alleged the law is unconstitutional in regards to health care facilities. On Friday, Judge Donald W. Molloy for the United States District Court for the District of Montana ruled HB 702 violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and ...