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Pandemic pushes expansion of 'hospital-at-home' treatment

Linda A. Johnson

August 20, 2020 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: United States, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Although offering at-home care has been a practice for some time, the coronavirus pandemic has helped prompt more health insurance companies to allow health care workers to implement the practice at a larger scale. Treating patients in their homes doesn't just reduce the caseload for doctors in hospitals but also has been shown to have positive effects on the patient's overall health and well-being. Since the change in health insurance police, "interest in the programs has skyrocketed."

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Behind the masks: Meet the people who keep Gauteng's field hospital going

Joan van Dyk James Oatway

August 20, 2020 |

Bhekisisa |

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Response Location: South Africa, Gauteng

A color-coded system is being adopted at hospitals throughout South Africa after seeing success in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The system uses red, yellow, and green color-coding to warn health care officials about their likelihood of coming into contact with someone who could expose them to the coronavirus. The tactic is just one of several new measures that have been implemented to keep frontline workers safe.

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‘It's your baby, and it's, like, wow': 3-D images from ultrasounds allow blind parents to feel their infant's face

Debra Bruno

August 09, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

3D ultrasound print outs help doctors perform non-invasive surgery in utero and provide blind parents with images during pregnancy. Doctors at Johns Hopkins hospital first used 3D models to improve surgery for spina bifida in utero. By placing one inside a soccer ball doctors can practice ahead of time for a less invasive procedure. A sonographer at the hospital expanded the approach to create 3D ultrasound models for patients who are blind. Some caution that ultrasounds are just diagnostic tools, but providing a picture of their ultrasound to someone who cannot see it in the traditional sense is powerful.

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Need a physical exam? How about registering to vote while you're at it? Milwaukee clinics join program to boost voting

Patricia McKnight

July 27, 2020 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

The VotER initiative registers voters while they wait at 75 hospitals and community health centers across the country. The founders feel that voting will help their patients because there are social and political issues that impact health. VotER has hospital posters and doctor badges with QR codes that take patients to a voter registration portal. There are also iPad kiosks in waiting rooms for patients to register, and some clinics send out text messages with voter information and election reminders. The team has registered 800 new voters and helped about 280 people request absentee ballots.

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After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay

James Vincent

July 09, 2020 |

The Verge |

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Response Location: United States

Covid-19 has accelerated technological innovations and robots are being used to minimize the virus’ transmission. Mobile disinfectant units using UV light to break apart the virus’ genetic material are in use at some hospitals, airports, hotels, and food banks. They clean surfaces faster and with less risk than humans. Robots are also doing initial patient in-takes at hospitals to minimize transmission and identify critical cases, and telepresence bots, essentially i-pads on wheels, allow patients to explore outside their quarantined spaces. Users do have to contend with occasional technological glitches.

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These doctors brought a shuttered L.A. hospital back to life to fight coronavirus

Thomas Curwen

July 07, 2020 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles County, California

A formerly closed hospital reopened as a pop-up health care facility in Los Angeles County to help provide health services for a predominantly Latino community during the coronavirus pandemic. Although it was only open for just over a month and operating costs were high, the facility was a unique opportunity for the healthcare providers involved to "create their own healthcare system and practice medicine unconstrained by medical corporations and insurance companies."

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'The biggest challenge of our time': How Sweden doubled intensive care capacity amid Covid-19 pandemic

Emma Löfgren

June 23, 2020 |

The Local |

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Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

Hospitals in Sweden have one of the lowest counts of ICU beds throughout Europe, but when Covid-19 began to spread, the country doubled their number of intensive care beds in preparation. Although hospitals took their own unique approach to achieving this, commonalities between each approach included reallocating space, investing in new or repurposing existing equipment, and "hospital staff going above and beyond normal duties."

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Public-Private Partnerships can help Nigerian hospitals improve maternal health; Here's how

Taiwo Adebulu

June 16, 2020 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

Public private partnerships are helping hospitals in Nigeria provide more efficient care, especially as it relates to maternal health. In Lagos State, the model – which partners a private healthcare management firm with the hospital – has helped better equip facilities so more laboratory tests can be conducted in one place. Although this solution doesn't necessarily solve all problems faced by those seeking care, it has helped to provide a more sustainable model of healthcare in many cases.

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Senegal Pledges A Bed For Every Coronavirus Patient — And Their Contacts, Too

Ricci Shryock

May 17, 2020 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

Senegal's success thus far in keeping coronavirus cases at manageable levels is due largely in part to a prioritization of increasing the number of beds available for COVID-19 patients. After years of running epidemic simulations, the Senegalese Health Emergency Operation Center was able to act swiftly when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, and convert hospital beds into ICU beds and hotel room beds into non-emergent beds.

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COVID-19: Will South Korea's model help save Nigeria's hospital bed shortage?

Ifedayo Ogunyemi

May 15, 2020 |

Nigerian Tribune |

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Response Location: South Korea

As a response to hospital bed shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea developed a strategy that divides individuals who tested positive into four categories – mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe – and placed those on the low end of the spectrum in self-quarantine or Living Treatment Centers (residential buildings requiring few medical personnel). As Nigeria grapples with the same issue, they look to South Korea as a model, but hesitate on making it work in different cultural contexts.

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