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Policies And Practices Of Shea Research Network Hospitals During The Covid-19 Pandemic., Michael S. Calderwood, Valerie M. Deloney, Deverick J. Anderson, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Shruti Gohil, Jennie H. Kwon, Lona Mody, Elizabeth Monsees, Valerie M. Vaughn, Timothy L. Wiemken, Matthew J. Ziegler, Eric Lofgren Oct 2020

Policies And Practices Of Shea Research Network Hospitals During The Covid-19 Pandemic., Michael S. Calderwood, Valerie M. Deloney, Deverick J. Anderson, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Shruti Gohil, Jennie H. Kwon, Lona Mody, Elizabeth Monsees, Valerie M. Vaughn, Timothy L. Wiemken, Matthew J. Ziegler, Eric Lofgren

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To understand hospital policies and practices as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) conducted a survey through the SHEA Research Network (SRN). The survey assessed policies and practices around the optimization of personal protection equipment (PPE), testing, healthcare personnel policies, visitors of COVID-19 patients in relation to procedures, and types of patients. Overall, 69 individual healthcare facilities responded in the United States and internationally, for a 73% response rate.


The State Of Children's Health: 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment For The Kansas City Region, Margo Quiriconi Jan 2016

The State Of Children's Health: 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment For The Kansas City Region, Margo Quiriconi

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The State of Children’s Health: 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment for the Kansas City Region (2016 CHNA) is the second assessment since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) required hospitals to conduct a triennial community health needs assessments. In addition to fulfilling the ACA requirements and subsequent IRS Section H/Form 990 mandate, the 2016 CHNA process is undertaken:
• to examine the current health status of children and identify unmet health needs in the Children’s Mercy leading service area
• to identify the current health priorities—as well as new and emerging health concerns—among children and families …