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The state’s budget also provides funding for the public defender system and mistakenly paid unemployment benefits
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Hospitals struggled with a shortage of health care workers before the coronavirus pandemic, but they’re really stretched thin as they admit hundreds of patients with the virus every day. To fill gaps in the workforce, hospitals in the St. Louis region are relying more on temporary workers.
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In her four-plus decades working as a nurse, Lila Moersch has seen a lot — including the loss of mobility many older patients experience following hospitalization. Time and again, she’s observed adults who were active and independent prior to a hospital stay struggle to walk and take care of themselves afterward. The common problem is the focus of a dissertation Moersch recently completed as part of her program of study at the University of Missouri-St. Louis' College of Nursing.
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This comes after the state recently announced a 12-week contract with health care consultant Vizient, as staffing at hospitals continues to be a struggle due to an influx of coronavirus cases.
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Mercy Health employees were among the first in the region to receive the newly approved coronavirus vaccine after the first shipments of the shots arrived in Missouri early Monday. The federal government is shipping 51,000 initial doses of the vaccine to the state’s health care workers this week, and millions more are expected to come in the next two months.
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‘The Wolf Is At The Door:' How Missouri’s Garbled COVID Data Misled The Public Until It Was Too LateEven as hospital leaders warned that their beds were nearly full — and Gov. Mike Parson assured the public that the state was prepared — some hospitals continued to report data that made their capacity appear larger than it was.
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Public health officials in Missouri and Illinois are bracing for a surge in coronavirus cases after Thanksgiving gatherings. Health experts had cautioned against traditional family dinners and parties for the holiday, as the virus is mostly being spread through small gatherings in private residences.
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At St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, patient techs, nurses and therapists are working twice their normal hours and trying to avoid burnout during a pandemic with no end in sight. Hospital leaders say that they soon won’t have enough staff to care for patients, and health workers have been pushed to their emotional and physical brink.
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Missouri tops 4,000 deaths Tuesday as University of Kansas Health System officials say further restrictions may need to be enacted.
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In spring, the region's largest hospital systems put a moratorium on elective procedures and surgeries. But another freeze could prove financially devastating for hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients and short-staffed.