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A study found Black children were more likely than white children to die after common surgeries, mirroring similar disparities found in adults. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio found that Black children were nearly 3.5 times more likely to die within 30 days after surgery compared to white peers. The study, published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, examined national data on nearly 173,000 operations from 2012 through 2017, where appendix removal and orthopedic operations were among the most common surgeries. While there were few overall deaths, 23 Black children died within 30 days of surgery compared with 13 white children.   "Generally, we expect that healthier patients should do well with surgeries. Healthy kids have low complication r...

Cleveland Clinic Indian River HospitalSebastian Daily has been receiving complaints about how nurses are being treated at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Vero Beach. The allegations include pregnant nurses, and mothers of young children being forced to work COVID, nurses not receiving merit raises, and not having the proper personal protective equipment. Pregnant Nurses Working COVID “Pregnant nurses & mothers with young children at home are being forced to choose between working COVID or unemployment,” an anonymous Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital employee told Sebastian Daily. “Instead of incentivizing nurses who take the extra shifts, the nurses who refuse, for a valid reason, are forced to either accept the shift or face unemployment,” the anonymous worker...

UPDATE: OU Medicine provides update on staffing capacity and surge plans Updated: 3:19 PM CDT Jul 20, 2020 OU Medicine continues to accept COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients, but has a surge plan in place in case it’s needed, a spokesperson said Monday.“OU Medicine is now, and has been since the onset of the pandemic, able to provide care to our ICU patients. Our current staffing capacity includes existing ICU beds and staffing for beds should we need to activate our phase 1 surge plan,” officials said in a new statement to KOCO 5. That statement came after a spokesperson mistakenly told KOCO 5 that Phase 1 of the surge plan had already been activated. T...