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Health professionals to Gianforte: ‘Set an example for all Montanans’ with COVID-19 | State & Regional

October 11, 2020

GOP Get Out the Vote tour — Candidate for governor Greg Gianforte speaks as volunteers and others gather in the parking lot in front of the Montana GOP office in Billings on a stop in the “Get Out the Vote” tour Thursday.

CASEY PAGE, Billings Gazette

A group of roughly 100 health professionals has sent an open letter to Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte chiding him over various actions regarding COVID-19 precautions.

In response, Gianforte’s campaign said the letter was an attempt to politicize public health.

The letter was sent Friday to Lee Montana Newspapers and included 111 names of nurses, doctors, caregivers and public health professionals.

It criticized Gianforte, the state’s current U.S. House representative, for three instances.

First, he appeared at a Lewis and Clark County event Oct. 3 that the health department said violated COVID-19 restrictions. Citations were expected.

Second, he arrived at an Oct. 6 gubernatorial event without a face mask. The letter

Mayors neighboring Hartford launch weekly distribution to address regional food insecurity

October 10, 2020

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With food insecurity a persistent concern for families, mayors from three towns neighboring Hartford banded together to launch a weekly food distribution event this month, acknowledging the challenge knows no borders.

Friday marked the first of four such events, measures to bridge the gap for families struggling amid a deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has slowed the economy and left many jobless. By 10 a.m., scores of cars wound through cones in the sprawling Rehoboth Church of God parking lot.

With little pause, cars, SUVs and trucks swept through a gantry of volunteers, who quickly loaded a gallon of milk, a box of fresh produce, meat and dairy products into trunks. Within minutes, the line had quickly diminished as the volunteers stood awaiting new arrivals until the roughly 1,700 boxes of fresh food were gone.

“We find that if we can come together, pool our resources together, it benefits the community,”

Tomball Regional Health Foundation continues supporting community with recent grant to Lone Star College

October 10, 2020

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Lone Star College announced, Oct. 6, that the Tomball Regional Health Foundation awarded the Lone Star College Foundation grants worth $244,696 to help Lone Star College-Tomball’s nursing and lifePATH programs.

LSC-Tomball president Lee Ann Nutt said the college has a longstanding relationship with the Tomball Regional Health Foundation.

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“They have been supportive of our programs and our college for many years, we have a great track record with them. …That’s allowed us to maintain this relationship of trust and support,” Nutt said. “Because of that relationship, trust and respect between us, we’ve been able to partner together quite a bit, I’m very grateful for that.”

The grant is technically one award but was split into two different parts, according to Nutt, with $244,696 going toward funding for additional lifePATH staffing and $101,839 helping provide more

Ritchie Regional Health Center offers mental health help | News, Sports, Jobs

October 7, 2020

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Central Regional Schools Report Positive Coronavirus Case

October 6, 2020

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BERKELEY, NJ — An individual in the Central Regional School District tested positive for the coronavirus, officials reported Tuesday. It was not immediately clear which school the person attends or whether they’re a student or staff.

Cleaning and disinfecting all exposed areas has been completed, Superintendent Dr. Triantafillos Parlapanides wrote in a letter. They are working with public health officials to follow guidelines and ensure safety.

Anyone with questions can email Parlapanides at [email protected]

This has been Central Regional’s first reported coronavirus case of the school year. The district began the year with a hybrid schedule.

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The state has reported 43 coronavirus outbreaks in schools this year — only one in Ocean County. State officials didn’t clarify where the Ocean County school outbreak occurred.

“Outbreaks” indicate two or more

Study Finds Regional Pact To Reduce Transportation Pollution Could Yield Major Health Benefits

October 6, 2020

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A preliminary analysis of the health impacts of the regional Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI) found that the plan that would reduce greenhouse gases the most would also yield the biggest health benefits, helping to avoid about 1,100 deaths and nearly 5,000 asthma cases, and saving $11.1 billion in heath costs in the decade after the initiative kicks in.

The analysis — known as the Transportation, Equity, Climate and Health Study (TRECH) and conducted by researchers at Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Boston University’s School of Public Health and the University of North Carolina — looked at 5 different policy scenarios that participating states are weighing. The scenarios considered different reduction caps for greenhouse gas emissions, from 20% to 25%, and different ways to invest the proceeds from distributor fees.

The study predicted that the most health benefits would result from a 25% reduction cap in

230 Montana health care providers: We must flatten the COVID-19 curve again | State & Regional

October 6, 2020

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Dr. Dave Higgins, a pediatrician at Billings Clinic, also recognized the difficulty of following the guidelines.

“These things that are being asked, they’re hard,” he said. “Each person may have a harder time doing some of these things than others. And, we’re tired of doing this. We’re fatigued. But they’re so critical at this time.”

Higgins stressed the goal of this advice to social distance, mask up and more is to keep life going, not to shut it down.

“We want to keep kids in school, to keep people at work,” he said. “We want people to have the freedom to do all those things safely. To get there, we hope people will rally around this shared common goal.”

For those in the community who may not realize the severity of the surge, Higgins implored them to listen to the stories of people whose lives have been “torn apart and

Virtual health fair at Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center

October 5, 2020

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From staff reports, The Spectrum & Daily News
Published 11:25 a.m. MT Oct. 5, 2020

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“The annual Health Fair at Dixie Regional Medical Center has always been a valuable resource to our community,” says Laura Bowles, marketing and communications specialist at Intermountain Healthcare’s Dixie Regional Medical Center. “This year, due to COVID-19 we are hosting a virtual health fair instead. Intermountain caregivers will present live on important health topics like COVID-19 in Washington County, overcoming fitness barriers, suicide prevention, and much more. We don’t want to loose the health education that usually comes with a health fair.”

Presenters are scheduled throughout the first week of October starting on Monday, October 5 and going through Friday, October 9. Visit www.dixieregional.org/virtualhealthfair to watch all of the live presentations and to see a presentation schedule. Caregivers will

Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients (CRISP) Selects Get Real Health for Patient Portal Solution

October 5, 2020

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Maryland Patients Will Have Secure Access to Their Health Data Starting With COVID-19 Test Results

Get Real Health, a member of the CPSI (NASDAQ: CPSI) family of companies and a provider of comprehensive patient engagement tools, announced today that the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), Maryland’s statewide health information exchange, has selected Get Real Health’s patient engagement platform to help improve secure access to COVID-19 test results for patients in Maryland.

The first phase of the project will be rolled out across the state of Maryland and is expected to be available in November 2020. Included in the first phase is the proven Get Real Health patient engagement platform that will enable patients to access their COVID-19 test results quickly and easily in a secure environment. Available in both a web-based portal and native mobile application, individuals will have access to their COVID-19 test results anytime, anywhere

Statewide health information exchange to launch in Montana | State & Regional

October 3, 2020

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The exchange should help with this road block, Branscum said.

“We had to make sure those medical records followed her,” Branscum said.

Branscum noted a study where the Colorado health information exchange reduced health information retrieval times from 29 hours to six minutes. The New York health information exchange reduced the average hospital stay by 7%.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, left, talks with John Felton of RiverStone Health, Jean Branscum, CEO of the Montana Medical Association and Dr. Randy Thompson, chief health analytics officer for Billings Clinic, right, before a roundtable to discuss Big Sky Care Connect on Thursday.

CASEY PAGE, Billings Gazette

Patient notifications have helps save about $1.25 million, or about $488 per hospitalized patient, by avoiding readmissions, Branscum said.

Providers can sign up to use the exchange system, and patients can choose not to have their information accessed and can opt out of the exchange. Independent providers

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