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May 24, 2022 | Volume XIX, Issue 20
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COVID-19 Booster Dose Available for Children 5 to 11 Years Old
Mayor Bowser and DC Health announced that the Pfizer COVID-19 booster is now available for children between 5 and 11 years old. The booster dose has been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and has been shown to help prevent getting infected or having severe complications from COVID-19. DC Health recommends that all eligible children 5-11 receive the booster as soon as possible in order to help stop the spread of COIVD-19. Any child between 5-11 who received their primary vaccine series on or before December 20, 2021 is eligible for the booster. Children ages 5 through 11 years who are moderately or severely immunocompromised are eligible for the booster if they received their primary vaccine series on or before February 20, 2022.
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COVID-19 Community Level: Medium
Moderate impact on the health care delivery system; moderate levels of disease severity.
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2021 Calendar Year Utilization Report
The charts and tables in this publication are intended to provide aggregate and comparative data on health care facility utilization in the District of Columbia. The source of the data is the District of Columbia Hospital Association’s Monthly Utilization Survey (self-reported by individual facilities).
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March 2022 Utilization Report
Highlights: Comparing utilization metrics to pre-COVID baselines, most metrics show a noted increase in volumes this month throughout the report. Acute care admissions went up from -23% to -10% below baseline, with all hospitals presenting higher volumes. Emergency Department visits increased going from -39% to -24% below baseline. Notably, ambulatory surgeries returned to levels greater than the pre-COVID baseline for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic at 8% greater than pre-COVID baseline for the month of March.
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National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being
The National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience released for public input through May 27 a draft National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being, which builds on almost six years of work among 200 participants. The plan identifies goals and actions to help health care leaders, educators, governing boards and federal agencies achieve health workforce well-being across seven priority areas: positive work and learning environments and culture; measurement, assessment, strategies and research of well-being; mental health and stigma; compliance, regulatory and policy barriers for health workers’ daily work; effective technology tools; effects of COVID-19 on the health workforce; and recruitment of the next generation.
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Seize the Conversation and Share Your Hospital Story
As part of AHA’s Seizing the Conversation initiative to balance the public narrative through a visible and consistent drumbeat of examples that illustrate the crucial role hospitals play in their communities, AHA calls on all hospitals and health systems to amplify our collective voice in better telling the hospital story. With hospitals and health systems serving every corner of this nation, we urge you to raise your voice and share stories of the impact that extends well beyond inpatient care. Share examples of the programs you support and lead, the initiatives and events you host, and the many ways in which you advance the health and wellbeing of your patients and community.
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HHI Cooking Competition Winners to be Announced on May 26
Join us on May 26 at 3pm as we announce the winners of the annual cooking competition as part of the Healthy Hospital Initiative. The Healthy Hospital Initiative is a partnership between the DCHA Program Services Company, Inc. and DC Health to reduce the availability and consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, and to promote healthier choices in district hospitals. This event highlights the incredible talent of hospitals chefs and their commitment to serving healthy, delicious food to patients, staff, visitors, and the community. Participating hospitals:
- The George Washington University Hospital
- MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center
- Howard University Hospital
- Psychiatric Institute of Washington
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Don't Miss the Patient Safety & Quality Summit
Speakers and panelists will discuss patient safety and health care quality through the lens of the theme, Rising to the Challenge and Supporting Resiliency. This in-person event, June 8, will take place at the Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet University.
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The Summit will feature four tracks that highlight patient safety and quality health care breakthroughs through diverse topics and ideas.
- The Nurse Resiliency Track, designed for current, former, or future nursing professionals and administrators, will explore strategies, new ideas and best practices that support building resilience in nurses and other health care workers to provide a protective factor against negative outcomes related to the job, including burnout, anxiety, depression, and how addressing these can improve patient outcomes and quality of care.
- The Behavioral Health & Substance Use Track is designed for professionals who see, treat, or interact with patients with BH or SUD concerns or who are hoping to increase their subject matter knowledge and to improve safety and quality of care. This track will bring you up to speed, and, if you’re already there, give you insight into what’s next on the horizon of BH and SUD patient care through sessions on topics including anti-stigma, safety, and maternal health.
- The Staffing and Operational Support Track is designed for professionals who provide operational support within their organizations. This track will feature presentations of quality improvement projects that facilitate cross-disciplinary thinking and collective action to develop sustainable solutions that not only tackle staffing problems, but also cultivate local talent and develop tomorrow’s leaders.
- The Innovation Track is designed for professionals who support quality improvement initiatives within their organizations. This track will feature presentations celebrating programs and initiatives that demonstrate the positive impact of patient safety and quality improvement achieved through innovative solutions and collaborative initiatives.
5.0 CE credits available for physicians, nursing, social workers, pharmacists, and quality professionals.
Attendees are required to show proof (photo, printed copy or bar code) of COVID-19 vaccination or booster shots; masks are required.
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- Monkeypox Likely Isn't Much of a Threat to the Public, NPR, Christopher Dean Hopkins, May 23, 2022
- Vaccines are Still Mostly Blocking Severe Disease, The Atlantic, Katherine J. Wu, May 23, 2022
- As Central-Line Infections Rise, Providers Look for Best Practices, Modern Healthcare, Mari Devereaux, May 23, 2022
- Surgeon General Warns of Escalating Healthcare Worker Burnout, Modern Healthcare, Lauren Berryman, May 23, 2022
- DC Hospital, Nurses End 9-Month Labor Dispute, Becker's Hospital Review, Kelly Gooch, May 23, 2022
- WHO Chief: The COVID Pandemic is 'Most Certainly Not Over,' Associated Press, May 22, 2022
- How the U.S. Got Into This Baby Formula Mess, NPR, Scott Horsley, May 19, 2022
- Hospital Field Continues to Need Relief and Support, AHA, Lisa Kidder Hrobsky, May 17, 2022
- Providers Find the Value in Patient-Generated Health Data, Modern Healthcare, Mari Devereaux, May 17, 2022
- Why COVID is a Key Suspect in Severe Hepatitis Cases in Kids Worldwide, CBC, Lauren Pelley, Adam Miller, May 14, 2022
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FDA Approves Booster Dose of Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Aged 5 to 11.
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Declaration to Advance Patient Safety
The safety of patients and the health care workforce is a public health emergency, exacerbated by the worsening national outcome trends during the COVID-19 pandemic. The impacts of this crisis on persons who receive and provide care and on our heavily stressed systems persist. The return to a pre-pandemic, status quo state of safety is insufficient for ensuring safe, reliable, and equitable care for every person. Rather, our recovery trajectory requires long-term, intensive focus to create, rebuild, and sustain the foundations for safe care. Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety provides concrete guidance for leaders to assess and fortify their total systems approach to safety by addressing specific needs and capabilities that enable safe care.
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Taming the Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Naloxone Prescribing | Recording
Since 1999, overdose deaths from opioids have nearly quadrupled. Often, by the time that paramedics arrive, it's too late to save a life. As this epidemic rages, more health care organizations are taking steps to prescribe naloxone (Narcan®) to high-risk patients to reverse opioid overdoses. This webinar will review methods for identifying patients at high overdose risk; provide recommendations for writing and filling of naloxone prescriptions; discuss challenges to developing and implementing naloxone prescribing across a health system; and compare strategies for incorporating overdose education and naloxone programs into different care settings.
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Unity Health Care
As the largest network of community health centers in Washington, D.C., Unity Health Care provides a full range of health and human services to meet the needs of our communities through a network of over 28 traditional and non-traditional health sites and a mobile medical outreach vehicle. Our team of compassionate and multicultural health professionals place Unity values into action every day to bring whole-person care and wellness to nearly 100,000 patients through 475,000 visits annually. Deeply rooted in the District’s neighborhoods for over 35 years, Unity strives to promote healthier communities through compassion and comprehensive primary and specialty health care and wrap-around services, regardless of ability to pay.
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