Tri-State hospitals report low number of staff out sick due to COVID vaccine side effects
While a small number of vaccinated health care workers have had to call out sick due to the shots side effects, officials say it s a quite low number and the majority have continued working.
and last updated 2021-02-08 19:13:08-05
As more and more Tri-Staters receive one of two COVID-19 vaccinations currently available, doctors are learning more about the side effects that could accompany the dual-injection treatments. Those side effects were strong enough for a small number of vaccinated health care professionals to have to call off work in the days following their shots.
Ohio scammed into paying out hundreds of millions in fraudulent pandemic unemployment: Capitol Letter
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
The state estimates at least $330 million was paid out to fraudsters from April to December. (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services)
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Scam-a-lot: State officials have so far been able to confirm $330 million was paid out to 56,000 fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits claims filed between April and December, Jeremy Pelzer reports. An additional 2,200 fraudulent overpayments for traditional jobless benefits, totaling $2.3 million, were made between October and December.
If at first you don’t succeed: Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday he plans to try to re-introduce his STRONG Ohio gun-reform package as part of the state budget bill, after his fellow Republicans in the state legislature refused to act on it last session. As Andrew Tobias reports, DeWine told reporters the specifics will appear in t
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Roughly 25% of Ohio nursing homes and long-term care facilities reported they had less than one week’s supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the deadliest month of the pandemic.
Leaders in the field say at a time when nursing home residents and staff are vulnerable to COVID-19, these facilities get little support from the state to shore up supplies. Instead, nursing homes are left to try and buy what expensive PPE they can find in a global shortage.
Nearly half of Ohio’s COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, despite reported resident cases making up only 5% of the state’s cumulative COVID-19 cases and staff cases making up roughly 4% of cases.
Ohio has $50M plan to shrink nursing home bed count Kaitlin Schroeder
Older Ohioans overwhelmingly prefer to stay home and out of a nursing home as long as possible, and when in a nursing home, people primarily want the room to themselves.
This has prompted the DeWine administration to propose a $50 million fund that would buy back bed licenses from nursing homes and shrink the number of beds in the region. The fund is proposed as part of DeWine’s newly unveiled two-year operations budget proposal, which will be considered by the Ohio General Assembly.
Even though the number of older adults in Ohio has grown, occupancy rates have fallen in nursing homes. People instead stay home with the help of health aides or seek alternatives as they get older like assisted living choices boosted over the years by funding programs for eligible people.
Gov. Mike DeWine s budget includes a plan to give Ohio s Department of Health the power to shut down nursing homes across the state. The Patient Protection proposal, according to a fact sheet on the proposed budget, would give the agency the authority to swiftly intervene to protect patients in nursing facilities when they determine the health and safety of patients is in jeopardy. The department could also immediately remove patients and relocate them into a safe facility.
The sheet doesn t give details about when the department could do this, what proof would be required and whether facilities could appeal.
A health department spokesperson didn t respond to a request for comment Tuesday, but interviews with other department heads confirmed the governor has a multi-agency plan in his budget to improve care at nursing homes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.