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One of the limited primary resources has become trained health care workers, not just ventilators or physical space. Many hospitals had fewer nurses, respiratory therapists, and doctors than early in 2021 during a surge. [17] Likewise, New Mexico was close to declaring crisis standards of care after it had to impose waiting lists for its ICU. [17]
And according to a new West Health-Gallup 2021 Healthcare in America Report, 30% of Americans reported deferring medical care in the prior three months due to cost, a figure that has tripled since ...
It’s a lofty goal, considering nearly 1-in-12 adults (8%) owe medical debt totaling at least $220 billion as of December 2021, according to a 2024 Peterson-KFF analysis of U.S. Census Bureau ...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]
Arizona declared crisis standards of care in July 2020, allowing hospitals to legally provide treatment normally considered substandard to some patients in order to save others. [101] In January 2021, Southern California hospitals began to be overwhelmed with patients.
Savonnda Blaylock, a pharmacy technician in northern California, has worked for health care giant Kaiser Permanente for 22 years and she’s never been on strike. That could change on Wednesday ...
On January 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it had found at least 52 confirmed cases of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant: 26 in California, 22 in Florida, two in Colorado, and one each in Georgia and New York.
As the health care crisis raged, facilities on the front lines began to have severe staffing issues. ... Thompson in 2021 announced a new $500 tuition incentive for UW pharmacy and nursing ...