Musicians and collectors using NFTs.
Educating clients on NFTs now, and advising on it down the road.
The frothy hype cycle.
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Lawmakers and Gov. Phil Murphy rushed last spring to protect hospitals and nursing homes from lawsuits as they faced an onslaught of COVID-19 patients and the unprecedented challenge of caring for them.
More than a year later, and far from the dire circumstances of the first wave, New Jersey s political leaders are not eager to scale back the protections, even though nearby states have lifted theirs and advocates, lawyers and a small group of lawmakers here say they are no longer needed.
As a result, countless families have virtually no legal recourse to hold health care facilities accountable for deaths or injuries related to COVID-19 as long as Murphy keeps his health emergency order in place.
Jacqueline Moran, the director of Northwell’s Centralized Transfer Center, said the hospital can dial up its approach to move patients in response to emergencies, for example in the case a facility must be evacuated because of a fire or a flood.
“Thanks to COVID, the silver lining is now we know how to move this seamlessly from a high incident to a low incident on a daily basis,” Moran said.
Last March, two Northwell hospitals in the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Long Island Jewish Valley Stream and Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, were overwhelmed with patients.
Northwell Health operates its own ambulances and emergency call center, so they moved dozens of patients each day into other parts of the health network that were not overloaded with coronavirus patients.
Silver lining : Hospitals keep practices born in COVID rush
TED SHAFFREY, Associated Press
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SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) As coronavirus surged in New York last year, officials at the state s largest hospital system realized their old way of transferring patients to relieve stress on swamped emergency rooms just wasn t going to cut it.
Instead of time-consuming phone calls and emails, Northwell Health created a quicker, more efficient “crowd-sourcing” method using an online spreadsheet to match patients in need of a transfer with hospitals having available beds.
Now, Northwell Health, which operates 23 hospitals and 700 outpatient clinics in the New York City region, has made that system born in the midst of a crisis a permanent part of its operations.
This week’s BIG move:
Jabulani Sikhakhane is the new editor at The Conversation Africa
Jabulani Sikhakhane
The Conversation Africa
starts a new chapter this month with the appointment of Jabulani Sikhakhane as
new editor of the online title. Sikhakhane takes over the reins from Caroline
Southey, who will assume the role of founding editor, shifting her focus to the
site’s future sustainability. She will also deputise for the editor in his
absence.
“I am honoured to have been offered the
editorship of the Conversation Africa which has grown into a formidable
editorial platform since its inception almost six years ago,” Sikhakhane said: