Author: Dorron Blumberg

CHI ADJUSTS COVID-19 TESTING HOURS IN MIAMI DADE

Posted by | Mar 30, 2020 | |

March 30 2020 – Community Health of South Florida, Inc. (CHI) is adjusting its hours for its Miami-Dade Drive through testing to three days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9am to noon) effective March 30, 2020. The non-profit organization was the first to provide drive through Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties.

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World’s First Dedicated Coronavirus Unit for Psychiatric Inpatients Opens at Israel’s National Hospital

Posted by | Mar 30, 2020 | |

March 30, 2020 – Israel’s national hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer is the first hospital in the world to open a coronavirus care unit specifically created for psychiatric inpatients who have contracted COVID-19. 
 
The goal of Sheba’s new coronavirus psychiatric unit is to protect all of Israel’s psychiatric inpatients by designating one central facility that will hospitalize and care for patients who have tested positive and may have difficulty following social distancing.  This tactic will decrease the chances of dangerous and quick infection of entire psychiatric wards around the country, as recently happened in a psychiatric hospital in South Korea.
 

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New COVID-19 HOPE Clinical Trial Recommendations Introduced Today May Reduce or Eliminate Mechanical Ventilation for Coronavirus Patients

Posted by | Mar 30, 2020 | |

This is a press release recieved this morinjg and thought it might be of interest to our local medical community

Crucial life-saving initiative led by Dr. Steven Quay for clinical trials on the safety and efficacy of a combination of FDA-approved drugs (nebulized Heparin-N-acetylcysteine in COVID-19 Patients by Evaluation of pulmonary function (HOPE))
 
March 30, 2020 – Physician-scientist and inventor Dr. Steven Quay, MD, PhD, is announcing a new combination treatment with the potential to improve pulmonary function and reduce or eliminate mechanical ventilation in patients with the coronavirus infection. The treatment uses two drugs previously approved by the FDA for other conditions: nebulized (inhaled as a fine mist) heparin combined with N-acetylcysteine (NAC), termed “H-NAC." Dr. Quay is making this new clinical trial protocol (called the COVID-19 HOPE Trial) available for use by the worldwide medical community. Starting today, doctors around the world are invited to directly download the protocol free of charge at www.DrQuay.com. 
 

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Tenet’s Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Broward County Hospitals Observe National Doctors’; Day

Posted by | Mar 30, 2020 | |

March 30, 2020 – Tenet’s Broward, Miami- Dade and Palm Beach County hospitals, Delray Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center, West Boca Medical Center, Coral Gables Hospital, Florida Medical Center, Hialeah Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, and Palmetto General Hospital, celebrate National Doctors’ Day by paying tribute to its physicians for their service, skill and compassion. 
 
 

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