First Edition: January 27, 2020
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Syndicated from https://khn.org/morning-breakout/first-edition-january-27-2020/
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Under Pressure, Montana Hospital Considers Adding Psych Beds Amid a Shortage
Gary Popiel had to drive more than 200 miles round trip to visit his adult daughters in separate behavioral health facilities as they received psychiatric and medical treatment. It was 2000, and the family’s only options for inpatient psychiatric beds were in Helena and Missoula — far from their Bozeman, Montana, home and from each…
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One College’s Pop-Up COVID Test: Stop and ‘Smell the Roses’ (Or the Coffee)
If all goes according to plan, Penn State University students who opt for an on-campus experience this fall will start in-person classes on Aug. 24 under the banner of a “Mask Up or Pack Up” campaign. By returning to campus, students are agreeing to wear masks, adhere to social distancing practices and submit to random…
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Confronting Ageism in Health Care: A Conversation for Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians
Can’t see the video player? View the video here. What does ageism in health care look like? It can be a thoughtless quip that makes an older person feel diminished. Or an assumption that patients are unable to follow a conversation or make their own decisions. Maybe it occurs when a concern is voiced, then…
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Dental and Doctors’ Offices Still Struggling with COVID Job Loss
California’s outpatient health care practices largely shrugged off two recessions, adding more than 400,000 jobs during a two-decade climb from the start of 2000 to early 2020. It was an enviable growth rate of 85% and a trend largely mirrored on the national level. Then came COVID-19. Anecdotal stories abound about the crushing impact the…
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Native Americans Feel Double Pain of COVID and Fires ‘Gobbling Up the Ground’
When the first fire of the season broke out on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Northern California in July, Greg Moon faced a dilemma. As Hoopa’s fire chief and its pandemic team leader, Moon feared the impact of the blaze on the dense coniferous forests of the reservation, near Redwood National and State Parks, where…
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Racial Status And The Pandemic: A Combustible Mixture
This story also ran on Vice. This story can be republished for free (details). In early March, Madalynn Rucker, then 69, agonized over whether to close her Sacramento consultancy office. On the 16th, she finally succumbed to a barrage of texts and calls from her daughter about the heightened risk of the coronavirus, and told…
