NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Thank you very much. Lieutenant Governor McNally, Speaker Sexton, Speaker Pro Tem Haile, Speaker Pro Tem Marsh, Members of the 112th General Assembly, Justices,.
Proposed legislation would provide financial benefit for Tennessee health care workers by Vivian Jones, The Center Square | February 03, 2021 10:00 AM Print this article
Tennessee lawmakers are considering ways to provide financial incentives for nurses and health care staff to stay in the profession after medical staffing shortages highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Katrina Robinson, D-Memphis, has filed a bill that would provide one-time payments of $1,500 to nurses, paramedics and EMTs who provided health care services during the pandemic. Another bill filed by Robinson would waive state licensure fees for health care professionals for the next four years.
Robinson, herself a registered nurse, said the goal of the legislation is to address the shortage of health care workers in the state.
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QsourceKids Delivers COVID-19 Educational Curriculum for Young Learners
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Thanks to a Tennessee Community CARES grant, a new series of video lessons and educational materials is available to teachers and families at no cost. The programs help young children engage in learning COVID-19 related guidelines and recommendations for safer health practices. Qsource recently launched QsourceKids, a program to develop health education content for PreK-12 public and private school systems. The program s first series is designed for students in PreK through third grades.
Qsource chief executive officer, Dawn FitzGerald, said the program responds to the feedback they received from teachers and parents for simply packaged, trusted, and science-based tools for younger children in the era of coronavirus. We re excited to launch QsourceKids and grateful to the State of Tennessee, the Tennessee CARES Program, and Women s Foundation fo
SEYMOUR â Seymour Volunteer Fire Department recently purchased three LUCAS devices through a $43,712 TN Community CARES grant received due to its emergency response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The Tennessee Department of Human Services, along with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, and the Financial Stimulus Accountability Group created the Tennessee Community CARES Program to invest $150 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds to help with ongoing efforts to address health and economic needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. SVFD submitted its grant application after seeing a great need for additional LUCAS devices as it was responding to cardiac arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In order to provide quality patient care during emergency response calls and minimize exposure for both the patient and emergency provider the LUCAS device is an important piece of life-saving equipment.