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BURKE, VA While U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths have been trending downward over the past week, hospitals across the country still report straining to meet the demands of the ongoing pandemic.
At the national level, during the week ending Jan. 25, deaths were running at an average of just under 3,100 a day down from a peak of more than 3,350 in the weeks prior, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. New cases were averaging about 170,000 a day after hitting almost 250,000 earlier this month.
Meanwhile, state health officials in Virginia reported to the federal government that 72 percent of all inpatient beds in hospitals across the state were still occupied as of Jan. 23. Around 16 percent of beds statewide were filled by COVID-19 patients, they reported.
Healthcare Brief (01/14/21)
Tenet acquires surgery centers and offloads urgent care, BSW Foundation s new president, Medical City s food bank donation, and more.
By Will Maddox
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Healthcare Business
January 13, 2021
2:39 pm
Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation has named Ben Renberg its new president. Renberg brings 25 year sof experience in the nonprofit world, and was most recently senior associate vice president of alumni affairs and development at Cornell University. “Ben has an excellent reputation as a strategist and fundraiser. He is a proven leader with an impressive track record,” said Norm Bagwell, chairman of the Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation board via release. “We look forward to working with him to build on the legacy of excellence and success for which the Foundation is known.”
By @TobyChilliShow
Jan 11, 2021
One Reston family is helping families stay connected with their little ones during a very stressful time.
Alison Stern was rushed into emergency cesarean surgery after her baby’s heartbeat started to drop.
As she recovered from the C-section in Reston, Virginia, Alison couldn’t hold her newborn in Washington, D.C, over 25 miles away. Though she could see him with a special camera in the neonatal intensive care unit room.
It was five days before Alison was able to hold Emerson for the first time. It was another two weeks before he was transferred to the Reston Hospital Center.
At a virtual town hall on Wednesday night (Jan 6), Fairfax County Health Department Director Gloria Addo-Ayensu answered a number of questions about COVID-19
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My friend Jay.
He went from class president to drug dealer, then dead at 16. My desperate, personal search for answers.
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
I was in the water. That’s one part I’ll always remember. It was the morning of Sunday, June 13, 1999. I was 17 and cooling off during my break as a lifeguard at a neighborhood pool down the street from my parents’ house in Reston, Virginia. I still recall that familiar rush of freedom, the heedless plunge into ice-cold water on a not-yet-hot day, that I would feel at the start of every summer.