Tag Archives: Centers

Community Care Cooperative launches $5 million campaign to boost telehealth for health centers fighting COVID-19

Community Care Cooperative, the accountable care organization that advances community-based care for MassHealth members through its network of 19 health centers throughout Massachusetts, has launched a $ 5 million campaign to greatly increase telehealth capacity in community health centers statewide. C3 said that telehealth capability is needed in order to better fight the COVID-19 pandemic –… Read More »

HHS distributes $500 million to tribal hospitals, clinics, and urban health centers

On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would distribute $ 500 million to the Indian Health Service and tribal hospitals, clinics, and urban health centers in response to COVID-19. At least 233 facilities across the Indian health system serve as the only healthcare provider for both Indian Health Service beneficiaries and… Read More »

Riots, escapes, and fear as coronavirus hits juvenile centers hard

Nicole Hingle wasn’t surprised when the call came. Frustrations had been building inside juvenile detention centers nationwide as the number of coronavirus cases continued to climb. Now, her 17-year-old son Jace, was on the phone telling her around 40 kids had rioted at his facility in Louisiana — the same state where more than a… Read More »

Only a quarter of U.S. childcare centers require kids to have flu shots

(Reuters Health) – Only a quarter of childcare centers in the United States require children in their care to get a flu shot, and even fewer require childcare workers to be vaccinated, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A sign advertising the availability of flu shots is taped onto a door of a Duane… Read More »

Do after-hours call centers send too many children to the ER?

A large number of pediatric practices these days use after-hours call centers for parents who have questions about a sick child. I’ve been looking around to find some data about how common this is, but my sense is that the majority of pediatricians use them. There is no question these call centers make life easier… Read More »

Long-Term Early Learning Vision of Daycare Centers

According to child care facts, professional and licensed daycare centers in Coquitlam promote healthy child development, early learning, building communities and more. Every day, a number of parents and their children receive support from leading child care providers. To offer child care is all about providing quality results ranging from physical growth to mental, emotional… Read More »