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VA Video Connect visits increase 1000% during COVID-19 pandemic
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today telehealth video appointments using VA Video Connect increased from approximately 10,000 to 120,000 appointments a week between February and May of 2020.
Families deserve straight talk about nursing home safety
The headlines have been grim. Seventeen bodies piled up in the morgue at a New Jersey nursing home. Fifty-five residents dead in Brooklyn, N.Y. In one week, 104 residents dead in a facility in western Pennsylvania and 102 dead at a home in San Antonio.
IEHP Members Thrive in New Health Homes Program
More than 9,000 Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) members are thriving thanks to the plan's newly-established Health Homes Program (Health Homes). Launched in 2019 to provide complex care for Inland Empire residents
VA national cemeteries resume committal and memorial services halted by the COVID-19 pandemic
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemeteries will resume committal services starting June 9 in all but two VA national cemeteries.
Monkeys, ferrets offer needed clues in COVID-19 vaccine race
The global race for a COVID-19 vaccine boils down to some critical questions: How much must the shots rev up someone’s immune system to really work? And could revving it the wrong way cause harm?
