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This year marks 20 years of Crain's Health Care Heroes. And what a year it was.
It's a special cohort of winners that reflects the extra mile every health care worker has gone during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here you will meet a pediatric researcher studying MIS-C, the inflammatory syndrome that has emerged in some children who have had COVID; the team that stood up Detroit's first drive-through COVID testing site; and an environmental services leader whose team has stepped up to keep hospital bed spaces available (and elevator buttons sanitized) during several surges of the virus. Other notable achievements include a groundbreaking 11-hour surgery to separate conjoined twins, a study on the effect of iPhones on cardiac devices and a nurse rooting out systemic racism in health care by developing better intake protocols.
Winners were selected from nominations and judged by a panel of health care professionals:
Gina Buccalo, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, UAW Retiree Medical
The COVID-19 crisis continues to dominate headlines, understandably so with daily infection, hospitalization and death numbers at record high levels while economic shutdowns continue to affect the entire world. â¨This level of concern is reminiscent of the early 1980s and the arrival of the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. At the beginning of the HIV epidemic, the disease was viewed by the general public as affecting mostly gay men, and efforts to battle infection rates were slow to come in the early years, but the world eventually saw it quickly grow into a life-threatening concern for all people.
As of 2019, there were around 38 million people worldwide with HIV/AIDS, including 1.8 million children. As of 2018, about 700,000 people had died of HIV/AIDS in the United States. These staggering statistics highlight the tremendous reach for what can still be a deadly virus if left undetected and untreated.