UC Health patient-care teams administer 1 million COVID-19 vaccines since December
Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 27 The leader of University of California Health reported Monday that a UC team of patient-care and support personnel now has administered more than 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, rapidly moving from immunizing their own staff to serving people around the state. We ve been in a race between the spread of the virus and the pace of vaccination since the moment the first shipment of vaccine arrived in mid-December. Our goal was and is clear get shots into the arms of Californians as quickly as possible, beginning with those at the highest risk of exposure and serious illness, said Dr. Carrie L. Byington, an infectious disease expert and executive vice president of UCH. The million-shot milestone is symbolically meaningful and an event to celebrate with all of our employees, students, and trainees. Ther
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University of California Health (UCH) announced today (April 26) that it has administered one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, marking a significant milestone in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than 60,000 people in California.
“We’ve been in a race between the spread of the virus and the pace of vaccination since the moment the first shipment of vaccine arrived in mid-December. Our goal was and is clear – get shots into the arms of Californians as quickly as possible, beginning with those at the highest risk of exposure and serious illness,” said Carrie L. Byington, M.D., an infectious disease expert and executive vice president of UCH. “The million-shot milestone is symbolically meaningful and an event to celebrate with all of our employees, students, and trainees. There isn’t a moment to rest because the pandemic is not over.”
Providers data-sharing ventures try to make patient data more useful, keep it safe
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Healthcare providers are moving into the complex world of sharing and sometimes selling patient data, but will have to address privacy concerns and maintain patient trust to be successful.
HCA Healthcare in January announced plans to share de-identified data on COVID-19 patients treated at its facilities with HHS Agency for Health Research and Quality and a consortium of universities for COVID-19 research. In a separate venture, 14 health systems including AdventHealth, Providence and Tenet Healthcare in February launched Truveta, a for-profit company that will aggregate and de-identify data from the founding providers for research.
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University of California Health (UCH) medical, nursing and public health schools achieved national recognition in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of Best Graduate Schools for 2022. The rankings are one measure of a school’s quality, and prospective students often refer to them when deciding where to apply.
This year’s ranking of medical schools includes a new diversity index, created to measure progress in enrolling students from underrepresented groups and creating a future health workforce that better reflects the general population. Four UC schools of medicine scored in the top 10 nationally for diversity, with UC Davis ranked fourth, UC Riverside sixth, and UCLA and UCSF tied for ninth.