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Lawsuit alleges rodent infestation at New Mexico prison
Two former inmates in New Mexico are suing state prison staff and a food-service contractor for cruelty and negligence, alleging they failed to resolve a yearslong rat and mouse infestation at the kitchen in a women’s lockup
Source: ABC News: Health - February 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Examining relations of polytraumatization typologies with positive memory count and phenomenology - Contractor AA, Kearns NT, Weiss NH, Blumenthal H.
Background and Objectives: Most individuals experience multiple potentially traumatizing events (PTEs); hence, it is important to consider count and types of PTEs (polytraumatization) in relation to post-trauma health. Notably, no research has examined pol...
Source: SafetyLit - January 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
The U.S. Fumbled Its Early Vaccine Rollout. Will the Biden Administration Put America Back on Track?
On a frigid morning in January, Trudy Ronnel settled into her favorite sofa chair at the Westminster Place senior-living community in Evanston, Ill., pulled down the neckline on her red blouse and braced herself for a shot she’d anticipated for almost a year. At 92 years old, with multiple medical conditions, she spent most of 2020 fearful of contracting the COVID-19 plague that ravaged the world outside her first-floor window.
To protect herself, for the past few months she’d avoided Westminster’s communal rooms, which had provided a means to stay active and engaged but risked becoming a pathogenic petri...
Source: TIME: Health - January 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: W.J. Hennigan, Alice Park and Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news
New St. Louis (MO) Program to Divert Mental Health Calls Away from 911
Robert Patrick
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
(MCT)
ST. LOUIS — If all goes according to plan, thousands of 911 calls beginning this month will not reach St. Louis police or fire personnel.
Calls involving people with mental health issues, or in a mental crisis, may instead be diverted to specially trained behavioral health professionals.
Tiffany Lacy Clark, COO of the contractor involved in the program, Behavioral Health Response, said the broader goals of the program are to relieve police and EMS workers from responding to many mental health crises, to prevent people undergoing a crisis from going to jail or th...
Source: JEMS Latest News - January 4, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Communications & Dispatch News News Feed 911 Mental Health Missouri Source Type: news
Samet taps Wilmington for sixth office, citing coastal region's growth
The Greensboro-based general contractor and developer expects to employ as many as three dozen employees in Wilmington.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: John Brasier Source Type: news
A psychometric investigation on the diagnostic utility of the posttrauma risky behaviors questionnaire - Contractor AA, Jin L, Weiss NH, O'Hara S.
We examined (1) PRBQ's predictive relations with clinical (vs. not) endorsements of distinct RSDBs, and (2) PRBQ's...
Source: SafetyLit - December 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Robins & Morton break ground on Texas hospital expansion
A Birmingham construction firm has broken ground on a new, five-story patient towner addition for South Texas Health System Edinburgh.
Robins& Morton will serve as the general contractor with Gresham Smith serving as architect.
The 150,000-square-foot facility in Edinburgh, Texas, will house an emergency department, imaging, a cardiac lab, a clinical lab, an intensive care unit (ICU), inpatient rehabilitation and a medical/surgical unit.
The facility, which is slated for completion in mid-2022,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - December 24, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tyler Patchen Source Type: news
Soldier, contractor, trauma: the governance of post-traumatic stress disorder in the private military labour market - White A.
This article explores the governance of post-traumatic stress disorder among soldiers-turned-contractors in the private military labour market. Using original data relating to the UK case, it argues that this governance regime is best understood as a polit...
Source: SafetyLit - December 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Funeral Costs are Driving Families Hit by COVID-19 to Desperate Measures
Before they entered the emergency room in San Antonio in late September, Randy Hinojosa turned to his wife of 26 years and assured her that they’d both get better and see each other again.
“I said, ‘We came together. We leave together,” he recalls.
Hinojosa recovered from his bout of COVID-19, but his wife did not. Five weeks later, on Oct. 25, Elisa Hinojosa died of the disease.
Faced with a $15,000 bill for funeral expenses, Hinojosa, 52, paid it without hesitating, even though his own four-day hospital stay with the virus had set him back $5,000 and the pandemic had hurt his business as a self-em...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Melissa Chan Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Source Type: news
Close to 200 organizations allegedly hacked by Russia: cybersecurity firm
Close to 200 organizations were hacked by Russia as part of the cybersecurity attack on SolarWinds, a third party software contractor,...
Source: Reuters: Health - December 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
