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Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber is among 13% of all hospitals with a five-star rating for overall quality from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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UPMC Altoona has received an A, the highest mark, this spring from The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization that rates hospitals on their ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
It’s the sixth consecutive A for the hospital from Leapfrog, which issues reports twice a year.
The hospital also has a four-stars-out-of-five rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and only one “black mark” among 16 illness categories from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment’s latest performance report.
“It’s a significant achievement, especially because it comes at such challenging times in health care,” said Dr. David Burwell, chief quality officer for UPMCs Altoona, Bedford, Somerset and Western Maryland, in a phone interview.
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The Rev. Sylvia King, a member of Johnstown City Council, used an inadvertent visual aid Wednesday while participating in a news conference hosted by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey to encourage people in central Pennsylvania to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
King appeared on the video conference call with oxygen tubes in her nose, medical equipment she expects she’ll need for a few more months, until her lungs clear from a COVID-19 infection she contracted in early January.
“You certainly don’t want to end up in this position,” King said. “I would rather have taken the shot.”
Waiting lists are long in some cases, but Bedford County residents who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine are finding places to get their shots, local officials say â even if it means holding clinics outside of normal business hours.
The latest of these will be this weekend, where Bedford Family Health Center will hold a clinic on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bedford Middle School.
The vaccinations are only for those who fit into the Department of Healthâs Phase 1A of the rollout. Those wishing to receive the vaccine must have an appointment, and no walk-ins will be permitted.