
Health Care
Down two hospitals in one month, new efforts to restore services in Chesco
Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals are now both closed. A new task force aims to keep services going, while another group wants the courts to intervene.
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Closing Brandywine Hospital, creating a Chester County ‘health care desert’
The county will lose yet another emergency room, the second in a month, and its only inpatient behavioral health facility on Monday.
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A Dec. 28 letter says Tower failed to provide Chester County Emergency Medical Services with “accurate, ongoing communication.”
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Report: Former buyer asks judge to stop Jennersville and Brandywine hospital closures
Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC is asking a Chester County judge to put a pause on Tower Health’s closure of Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals.
3 years ago
COVID-19 vaccine mandate kicks in for health care workers in Pa., N.J., Del.
The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.
3 years ago
Wolf signs fast-tracked $225M for health care workers
The funding is aimed to help keep burned-out health care workers on board during a staffing crisis.
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Chesco limits COVID-19 contact tracing amid high community spread
The Chester County Health Department has asked schools to stop contact tracing and to focus on checking students for symptoms, testing them, and sending them home.
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Here’s who has been boosted so far in Philadelphia
City health officials announced earlier this year they had given out more than 260,000 booster doses since August. This is how the numbers break down.
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How contact tracers keep up with the surge in COVID-19 cases
All those new positive cases means a shift in priorities, as CDC guidelines also have shifted.
3 years ago
Listen 1:48Pa. sends first ‘strike team’ to relieve health care workers in Bucks County
The new strike teams are part of a larger, state-directed effort to temporarily bolster capacity at short-staffed hospitals in Pennsylvania.
3 years ago
The Regional Roundup – January 24th
Another side effect for kids enduring a global pandemic: obesity. And, what's the real cost of salting winter weather roads? Plus, Kobe Bryant and "The Rise".
Air Date: January 24, 2022 10:00 am
Listen 49:00New conservative target: Race as factor in COVID treatment
Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments.
3 years ago
A 988 crisis line is coming. Mental health services ask: How do we stretch even more?
The aim is to make it easier for those having mental health issues to access intervention services and, ideally, avoid interactions with police.
3 years ago
Anti-abortion protesters optimistic at March for Life in DC
Thousands of anti-abortion protesters marched in the nation’s capital with a growing sense of optimism about the prospects this year of a sweeping rollback of abortion rights.
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N.J. requires COVID-19 vaccine for health care workers, ending test option
The order means health care workers who are unvaccinated will have until Jan. 27 to get their first shot and until Feb. 28 for the second.
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