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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Ronald Payne was on the verge of carrying out companywide furloughs this week at the nursing home chain he runs in Texas, letting go of anyone on staff who had not gotten at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, as mandated by the federal government. That might have meant well over 100 people at Southwest LTC Management Services'17 Texas nursing homes, he said. Instead, his facilities, along with most of the other 1,200 nursing homes in the state, were able to continue business as usual after a federal judge last week blocked the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers. The new rule, announced in August, required that all eligible employees of health care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs get at least one dose by Monday, Dec....

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(CNN) Do you have a sore throat, a runny nose and muscle aches? It could be a common cold, a case of the flu -- or Covid-19. The illnesses all share similar symptoms, sometimes making it hard to distinguish which is putting you under the weather. Case rates of Covid-19 have been on the rise as the Omicron variant has spread, but hospitalization numbers appear to be staying relatively low. For vaccinated people, evidence suggests that infection with this variant seems less likely to be severe, epidemiologist and former Detroit Health Department executive director, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed said. "The important thing to remember is a vaccine is like giving a 'be on the lookout' call to your immune system. So its capacity to identify, target and destroy viruses is so much higher every time we take another boost of the vaccine," El-Sayed said. "It makes sense that the symptoms you would experience are milder if you have been vaccinated." That does not mean, however, t...

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Contact: Tim Kershner, Director of Communications and Public Affairs 603-356-5461 ext. 2198 TKershner@memorialhospitalnh.org NORTH CONWAY, NH – On January 3, the Memorial Hospital walk-in clinic, currently located next to the emergency department (ED), will become part of the hospital's ED. "When people need medical care now, the Memorial emergency department is ready to help," says Memorial Chief Medical Officer Dr. Matt Dunn. "But when the need is not as urgent for our patients, a visit to the primary care office is often a better choice for the patient and relieves some volume from the emergency department." Examples of these less urgent needs, Dunn says, are rashes, sore throat, ear ache or a urinary tract infection. "The patient can call the primary care office and receive guidance as to whether a same-day appointment is appropriate or if they should go to the emergency department." Memorial Hospital primary care patients now have acce...

Introduction The consequences of the growing aging population have become a worldwide phenomenon, and the pace is particularly fast in China. In 2019, older adults made up 18.1% of the Chinese population, and this proportion is projected to peak by 2058. 1,2 Since the prevalence of frailty, multi-morbidity, and disability increases with age, the number of older adults living at home with complex primary healthcare needs, multiple comorbid health problems, and polypharmacy is growing. 3 The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes how critical it is to develop a person-centered integrated care system that has primary care as a central element to achieve Healthy Aging. 4,5 The Chinese government has introduced a series of policies to build a Three-Tiered Aged Care System that is "home-based, community-supported, institutional-supplemented old-age care system, and integrated with medical care system", which aims to integrate existing medical care and long-term care reso...

Enlarge this image André Lee, administrator and co-founder of Heart and Soul Hospice, stands with Keisha Mason, director of nursing, in front of their office building last week in Nashville, Tenn. Erica Calhoun for NPR Erica Calhoun for NPR This time, it didn't take much persuading for Mary Murphy to embrace home hospice. When her mother was dying from Alzheimer's disease in 2020, she had been reluctant until she saw what a help it was. And so when her husband, Willie, neared the end of his life, she embraced hospice again. The Murphys' house in a leafy Nashville neighborhoo...