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At Winthrop hospital on New York's Long Island, the signs are everywhere. They're posted at every nurses' station, papered above the security panels against which employees swipe their ID cards and even attached to paychecks. The notices are there to remind the hospital's staff - which includes everyone...
The mandate comes from the health department of New York, which over the summer became the first state to require that all health-care workers be vaccinated against influenza. In other states, individual hospitals have taken the same aggressive position. Given that the pandemic H1N1 strain is circulating the globe...
But rigorous vaccination efforts, even voluntary ones, can brush up against thorny privacy issues. At Maryland's Johns Hopkins Hospital, personnel who choose to get a flu shot are provided with a colored clip to attach to their hospital ID. The idea is to make easily identifiable those who are...
So for now, only those receiving the seasonal-flu vaccine will get a colored clip - this year it's yellow - and the system seems to be motivating employees to get their shots. "It introduces a bit of peer-pressure incentive to get vaccinated," says Dr. Aaron Milstone, a member of...
The Food Bank does not serve meals, but rather distributes more than 30 million pounds of food and grocery products each year to soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other community organizations. Cooper-Ayles said that volunteers help sort through the food for damaged, expired, or seasonal products.