Midwifery
The Doctorate of Nurse Midwifery Program at Fairfield University’s Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies has received a five-year accreditation through the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), according to a press release. The program, which had been pre-accredited by ACME since its 2017 inception, offers faculty-supervised clinical experience in attending births and providing primary, gynecologic, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, and breastfeeding care.
Noting the program’s focus on perinatal palliative care and trauma-informed care, Program Director Jenna LoGiudice, PhD, CNM, RN. pointed to the 2020 graduating class’s 100% certification rate. “The accreditation from ACME recognizes the work of our faculty and students alike in promoting excellence in the midwifery profession,” she said.
Written by Susan Gilgore
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will explore the birth of modern medicine and its scientific breakthroughs with a new exhibition titled,
Health, Healing & Addiction in 19
th Century America. The exhibition will open on
April 8 and run through
Oct. 17, 2021.
This exploration will feature rare artifacts, instruments, costumes and photographs, drawn from those once owned by the Lockwood and Mathews families, as well as loans from major private collections and public institutions.
Displays will include such notable, nationally regarded collections as those of
Dr. Donald Blaufox,Professor and University Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (MoHMA) and
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought extraordinary challenges to all New Yorkers. Families have grappled with the devastating impact of the virus, and businesses and workers have faced financial distress. In many respects, the crisis has brought out the best in New Yorkers as they step up to make a difference whether in a hospital intensive care unit serving patients, in a restaurant kitchen making meals for front-line workers and the elderly, or in a research laboratory seeking vaccines and treatments to battle Covid-19.
Today, Empire BlueCross BlueShield is honored to recognize 50 Whole Health Heroes who unflinchingly have fought against the unseen enemy, often sacrificing their own health and personal comfort to help others. These New Yorkers, who hail from the health care sector, the business world and the nonprofit field, have displayed extraordinary leadership, dedication, empathy, and remarkable compassion to he
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At the beginning of January, an oft-overlooked sector of the frontline healthcare workforce scored a significant win in New York state: officials classified home healthcare workers as priority 1A to receive COVID-19 vaccines, a move pushed by advocacy groups and unions.
But weeks later, many home healthcare agencies in the state especially smaller ones with limited resources are facing new challenges in getting their personnel inoculated.
There are shortages of the vaccine, and difficulties reaching a decentralized workforce. Most agencies lack the resources to set up their own inoculation sites, and vaccine hesitancy is still a significant concern.
Margaret Nordbye and her friend, Joseph Pasquarelli. A small group of people gathered outside St. Boniface Catholic Church in the South Wedge on an overcast day in January to remember a friend to the neighborhood. Her name was Margaret Nordbye, and that day would have been her 102nd birthday had she not died the previous August. Those gathered shouted out “independent,” “devoted,” “grateful,” “giving,” and “beautiful” when prompted for words to describe her. They came to dedicate in her memory what might seem the most trivial of objects a shepherd’s crook about 8 feet in height but it was a fitting tribute to Norbye, who had spent some 60 years keeping watch over the neighborhood from her home on Linden Street.