‘You can revive a cafe, but you can’t revive someone back from the dead’ Kent State epidemiologist Dr. Tara Smith breaks...
What is a nursing home? It’s where the hospitals discharge people for rehabilitation. It is where the frail and elderly live their last days with dignity and comfort. It’s where the most vulnerable with dementia rely on the facility to keep them safe. Families must put their full trust in these facilities to take care of their loved ones and protect them.
Nursing homes are navigating a new terrain we have never experienced before this new pandemic of Covid-19 that is tragically taking the lives of our loved ones. This virus is very serious for the elderly population and immuno-compromised patients. We are now seeing it affect healthy younger members of our population, including healthcare workers and physicians.
Elmedin Beganovic, a 26-year-old EMT, uses a modified paint sprayer to spray down the interior of an ambulance in the...
Photo by Brian McGowan Covid-19 Portage County scales back emergency Covid-19 response Portage County’s emergency operations center switched from full to partial...
Members of the Ohio National and Ohio Air Guard perform Covid-19 tests at a popup testing center at NEOMED in...
The number of hospitalizations “dramatically increased to a point of concern,” said Health Commissioner Joseph Diorio in the notice, which was released Friday afternoon.
The advisory says positivity rates — the percent of people who test positive out of the total number tested—now exceed 10 percent in Portage County.
Donna Wise poses for a portrait with her dog on the Headwaters Trail. Nov. 26, 2020. Portage County residents make the...
Portage County entered Covid-19 risk level four, the highest possible, after triggering six of the state health department’s seven risk level indicators, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday. Michael Indriolo/The Portager
University Hospitals Kent Health Center in October. Michael Indriolo/The Portager ‘Unrelenting’ Covid-19 surge launches Portage County into purple Local health officials...
Visualization of the coronavirus. Fusion Medical Animation/Unsplash Portage County health workers are expected to receive Pfizer’s vaccine this year It’s less...
The wait for a Covid-19 vaccine is over for Portage County’s frontline medical workers.
On Wednesday, University Hospitals announced it had administered the first vaccines at UH Portage, in line with the distribution priorities set by the Ohio Health Department, the CDC and other institutions.