Health Care

Citing recent data from the CDC, officials in the Garden State will use all of their outreach strategies to promote boosters.

The move could open the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots by early March.

The temporary sites, one of which will be located in Philadelphia, will allow hospitals to more rapidly discharge patients in need of long-term care.

Coronavirus cases are dropping, but Delaware hospitals are still operating under crisis standards of care. “COVID is still deadly,” one nurse manager stressed.

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.

The county will lose yet another emergency room, the second in a month, and its only inpatient behavioral health facility on Monday.

People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But hospitals are still struggling to treat the huge volume of patients.

A Dec. 28 letter says Tower failed to provide Chester County Emergency Medical Services with “accurate, ongoing communication.”

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Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC is asking a Chester County judge to put a pause on Tower Health’s closure of Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals.

The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.

The funding is aimed to help keep burned-out health care workers on board during a staffing crisis.

Some retailers are starting to get the first wave of the 400 million free masks being distributed by the federal government. Every person is allowed to receive up to three.

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.