Also, learn about the state of Covid for the fall, and how wearable devices produce lifesaving data.
At Philadelphia City Hall, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's new administration is seeking to fill several vacant positions in health-related city agencies.📮 Tell us about your COVID summer. Are you seeing an uptick in COVID cases among your patients ? For a chance to be featured in this newsletter,
The stakes here are high. We’re the poorest big city in the country, and our health-care system is a case study in how poverty and racism can contribute to unequal access to care and poor health. Having permanent leadership at the city health agencies matters. And a succession of scandals at these departments in recent years — fromreducing its operating losses to at most $6.7 million.
Have a patient stressed out by a long hospital stay? If you work at Penn, you can request an Amazon gift card to buy up to $50 in gifts for a patient staying in the hospital for five days or longer. Learn how the PennHOPES program makes it easier to lift patients’ spiritsExcuse us while we play virus detective: That’s the number of gene copies of COVID that were present in a liter of wastewater at Philly’s Southwest water treatment plant on Aug. 5.
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