Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should “do everything in his power” to immediately reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats’ emerging reconciliation bill, said one expert. Hundreds of people affected by the United States’ sky-high insulin prices and more than two dozen progressive advocacy groups on Monday told Senate Majority […]
Governor Still On TV Inviting Unvaccinated Tourists To Alaska While Rural Alaskans Can’t Get Needed Hospital Treatment & State Has Highest Infection Rates In World According to Wednesday’s Anchorage Daily News at least two more patients from Rural Alaska died recently because there was no space to treat them at Alaska hospitals. Doctors have been […]
ANCHORAGE – Saturday, due to the current surge in COVID-19 cases and a shortage of resources within some hospitals, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) activated the State’s crisis standards of care document, Patient Care Strategies for Scarce Resource Situations, for 20 Alaska health care facilities. The activation was requested by the […]
WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Health care workers must meet all of the following criteria: Have direct patient contact, or have direct contact with infectious materials from patients; and, Provide essential services in a health care setting that cannot be offered remotely or performed via telework; and, Provide a service in a health care setting that cannot be postponed […]