Leadership at Unity Healing Center in Cherokee failed to properly investigate or report allegations that an employee of the federally run rehab center.
Leadership at Unity Healing Center in Cherokee failed to properly investigate or report allegations that an employee of the federally run rehab center.
PIH s director of implementation for NCDs reflects on Asian American history, identity
Posted on May 14, 2021 Dr. Paul Park, left, works with colleagues in Rwanda, where he lived for four years during his time with Partners In Health. At right is nurse Claude Ngarambe and, at center, Brigham & Women s Hospital resident Dan O Neil.
Photos courtesy of Paul Park
As we reflect on the violence against Asian Americans that has come to light in recent weeks, it’s crucial to understand historical context including how that context affects the present, and how bold new action is required to change the future.
“There’s a lot of reasons why that [violence] is happening. I think one of them is a misunderstanding of who we are, and our important role in the history of this country as fellow Americans,” said Dr. Paul Park, a director at PIH and the son of Korean immigrants.
Educators likely will get their own COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Cape Cod after all.
In a U-turn from their announcement earlier this week, Cape Cod officials are working on plans for a clinic that would be open only to K-12 educators and staff, and child care workers.
The Barnstable County Vaccine Consortium will release more details next week, state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said Thursday during the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force’s weekly press briefing.
His announcement marks a shift from a letter the Cape’s legislative delegation sent Tuesday to Cape school superintendents.
The letter, signed by eight legislators, said the Baker-Polito administration had told them it had no plans for an educator-only site anywhere on Cape Cod, including the Upper Cape Regional Technical School in Bourne, where some officials had hoped to host a teacher-vaccination clinic.
BOURNE The Cape s legislative delegation sent a letter to local school superintendents telling them not to expect an educator-only vaccination site this side of the bridge any time soon, even as state officials Wednesday called for such local clinics to be held.
“We have asked the Baker-Polito Administration about setting up educator-specific sites and, so far, we have received a hard NO,” the letter dated Tuesday read.
The eight legislators urged teachers and other school employees not to wait for a vaccine but to avail themselves of appointments through CVS, the state’s seven mass vaccination sites and other currently available locations.