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EBSCO Information Services Announces EBSCO Nurse of the Year Award Winners ~ Winners Each Receive a $1,000 Scholarship for Continuing Education ~
IPSWICH, Mass. January 25, 2021 EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced its recipients of the EBSCO Nurse of the Year Award, Lori Chikoyak, Infection Prevention Nurse/Interim Employee Health Nurse at Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC) in Bethel, Alaska, and Kerri Phillips-Smith, Breast Care Nurse/Clinical Nurse Specialist - Stomal Therapy & Wound Care, at Ramsay Health in Australia.
This award honors exemplary nurses and/or midwives with a $1,000 scholarship to be used for the continuing education opportunity of their choosing. EBSCO customers worldwide nominated nurses and/or midwives from their institutions who demonstrate the World Health Assembly’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife key directives to achieve health care for all and act as change leaders influencing improvements in health care.
When you get off the plane in Bethel, you can get a gift card for a local business and a shot at winning $1,000 in a raffle. The only catch? You have to take a COVID-19 test at the airport. The program lapsed briefly, but the city council just voted to start it back up on Jan. 12.
When the city began the incentive program back in June 2020, they hoped that it would up the airport testing rate for passengers arriving in Bethel to 100%. But the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation said that incentives or no, the testing rate has hovered between 50% and 75% of passengers since testing began.
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The expansion applies to Bethel, where currently the vaccine is only open to essential workers, people ages 50 and older, and people living in congregate shelters. The general population in other communities of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta became eligible for the vaccine earlier this week on Jan. 11.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation is distributing the vaccine in the region, and encourages every eligible person to receive it. YKHC President and CEO Dan Winkelman said during a virtual town hall that the health corporation was able to expand eligibility to the general population after many people across the region declined the vaccine. YKHC also received more doses than initially expected.
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As COVID-19 cases climb, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation recommends that the entire region remain locked down for another month, through Feb. 28. This is the third consecutive month that the health corporation has advocated for a month-long, region-wide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19.
YKHC issued its initial lockdown recommendation on Nov. 16. Nearly all communities in the region complied. It issued another lockdown recommendation on Dec. 18. The lockdowns worked; cases of COVID-19 stabilized. But following the Christmas holidays, cases have begun growing exponentially once again.
According to a press release from the health corporation advocating for the lockdown extension, over the past week YKHC has recorded a 33% increase in new cases. In early January, they began seeing an increase in severe cases requiring hospitalizations and medevacs. Many of these severe cases have been in people under the age of 65.