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Scotiabank Announces $1 Million Gift Supporting Research Aimed at Improving Children's Health
Researchers at Sinai Health System's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute focus on genetic and environmental factors
Scotiabank gives $1 million gift to one of the top biomedical research institutes in North America http://bit.ly/2fXu8Zu @ScotiabankViews
NEWSROOM: Scotiabank
CAMPAIGN: Scotiabank: Young People
CONTENT: Press Release
TORONTO, ON, December 1, 2016 /3BL Media/ - Scotiabank has announced a $1 million gift to one of the top biomedical research institutes in North America to support discovery of the determinants of health for infants and children. The announcement was made on Monday, November 21, at Sinai Health Foundation's marquee event Dinner with Scientists.
The gift will support the work of Dr. Stephen Lye, a Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, part of Sinai Health System. Dr. Lye's research focus is to better understand both the genetic and environmental factors that shape the health of infants and children, from the time of conception. He has published studies on such topics as the impact of breastfeeding, pre-term birth and placental health. He is also co-lead of the Ontario Family Health Study, which is collecting data from over a thousand pregnant women and, through TARGet Kids, following the health of their children. Dr. Lye holds the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary Chair in Women's and Infants' Health Research. Sinai Health System has the largest neonatal research program in Canada -- based on activity, volume of research and funding.
"The goal of this research is to translate our findings into public health and education policy, as well as paediatric clinical practice. By supporting this research, Scotiabank is contributing to better outcomes for our children's future," said Dr. Lye.
The gift will be matched by the Tanenbaum Research Matching Endowment Fund, which was created by Larry and Judy Tanenbaum and their family. The fund provides 1:1 match funding for gifts of $1 million from other donors, providing donors with the opportunity to double their impact in supporting world-leading science.
"We are honoured to partner with Dr. Lye in supporting his important work to improve the lives of infants and children, as well as their families," says Brian Porter, President and CEO of Scotiabank. "Health is fundamental to our young people reaching their full potential -- there are few other investments as important to the long-term security, stability and strength of our communities and our country."
"We have had a long partnership with Scotiabank for over 60 years and they have been strong advocates in supporting discovery science at the LTRI," says Joseph Mapa, CEO of Sinai Health Foundation. "A gift of this nature provides critical funding that helps us prevent, diagnose and treat the conditions and diseases that affect Canadians. We thank them for their generous support."
About Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, part of Sinai Health System, is a leading biomedical research centre, ranking amongst the top biomedical research institutes in the world. Established in 1985, the institute is profoundly advancing understanding of human biology in health and disease. Many of the breakthroughs that began as fundamental research have resulted in new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat prevalent conditions. The institute is affiliated with the University of Toronto and is focused on women's and infants' health, cancer biology, stem cell biology, neurobiology, diabetes, arthritis, health systems research, population health services and solutions, and systems biology. www.lunenfeld.ca.
About Scotiabank
Through our global community investment strategy, Scotiabank and its employees support causes at a grassroots level. Recognized as a leader for our charitable donations and philanthropic activities, in 2015, Scotiabank contributed $67 million to help our communities around the world.
Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 88,000 employees and assets of $907 billion (as at July 31, 2016), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). Scotiabank distributes the Bank's media releases using Marketwired. For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.
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Public, Corporate and Government Affairs
Erin.Truax@Scotiabank.com
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Senior Manager, Communications and Public Affairs
Sinai Health System
sally.szuster@SinaiHealthSystem.ca
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(2) (A) that no person is legally responsible for the proper care and control of such well; or (B) that the person legally responsible for the care and control of such well is dead, is no longer in existence, is insolvent or cannot be found, then, after completing its investigation, and as funds are available, the commission shall plug, replug or repair such well, or cause it to be plugged, replugged or repaired, in such a manner as to prevent any further pollution or danger of pollution of any usable water strata or supply or loss of usable water, and shall remediate pollution from the well, whenever practicable and reasonable. The cost of the investigation; the plugging, replugging or repair; and the remediation shall be paid by the commission from the well plugging assurance fund or the abandoned oil and gas well fund, as appropriate.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a person who is legally responsible for the proper care and control of an abandoned well shall include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following: Any operator of a waterflood or other pressure maintenance program deemed to be causing pollution or loss of usable water; the current or last operator of the lease upon which such well is located, irrespective of whether such operator plugged or abandoned such well; the original operator who plugged or abandoned such well; and any person who without authorization tampers with or removes surface equipment or downhole equipment from an abandoned well.
(c) Whenever the commission determines that a well has been abandoned and is causing or is likely to cause pollution of any usable water strata or supply or loss of usable water, and whenever the commission has reason to believe that a particular person is legally responsible for the proper care and control of such well, the commission shall cause such person to come before it at a hearing held in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act to show cause why the requisite care and control has not been exercised with respect to such well. After such hearing, if the commission finds that the person is legally responsible for the proper care and control of such well and that such well is abandoned, in fact, and is causing or is likely to cause pollution of any usable water strata or supply or loss of usable water, the commission may make any order or orders prescribed in K.S.A. 55-162, and amendments thereto. Proceedings for reconsideration and judicial review of any of the commission's orders may be held pursuant to K.S.A. 55-606, and amendments thereto.
(d) For the purpose of this section, any well which has been abandoned, in fact, and has not been plugged pursuant to the rules and regulations in effect at the time of plugging such well shall be and is hereby deemed likely to cause pollution of any usable water strata or supply.
(e) For the purpose of this section, the person legally responsible for the proper care and control of an abandoned well shall not include the landowner or surface owner unless the landowner or surface owner has operated or produced the well, has deliberately altered or tampered with such well thereby causing the pollution or has assumed by written contract such responsibility.
History: L. 1986, ch. 201, § 31; L. 1988, ch. 356, § 165; L. 1993, ch. 62, § 1; L. 1996, ch. 263, § 7; L. 2001, ch. 191, § 6; July 1.


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by Peter Sigrist
In 2007, the "Grand Park" residential complex was completed along the border of the now-defunct Frunze Central Aerodrome in Moscow. Located on Khodynka Field, within 5 miles of the city center, Frunze was the city's only airport until 1941.
After the airport was decommissioned, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness reportedly sought to build a major temple there, which never happened due to staunch opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Grand Park was built instead, one of many projects by the INTECO real estate development firm owned by the wife of Moscow's mayor at the time.
An entire book could be written about this gated complex.
For now I have a photo tour of the massive structure, which cascades toward an overgrown field where people shoot at targets, race their cars and gaze at uncommon architecture along the perimeter.
Does anyone have information on this crossword-puzzle building?
The "Triumph Palace" housing development (above center), which mimics the Seven Sisters from the late Stalin era, was constructed between 2001 and 2005.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Some mourn the removal of historic aircraft (above) that once occupied the site, part of the apparently abandoned National Air and Space Museum.
The planes and helicopters are still visible in Google Earth (above), but I didn't see them while visiting in August of this year. I hope they were just hidden from view or I was looking in the wrong place.
This is part of a collection of featured places from around the world. If you'd like to share photos of a place you find interesting, please add them to the Flickr group or send them to info@thepolisblog.org and we'll publish your feature. Video and sound recordings are also welcome.
Credits: Aerials from Google Earth. Ground photos by Peter Sigrist unless otherwise noted.


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Unified Libyan Airlines to increase international flights
After the reunification of Libya's state-owned airline between the eastern and western management of the company, it announced that it will now work to increase the number of its international destinations.The Airline's current…
Libyan Airlines to be reunified
The CEO of Libyan Airlines, Hamid Kahled Asbaga announced that an agreement is currently being drawn up to unify the company's board of directors.Asbaga stated that a unified schedule for domestic flights between Tripoli and Benghazi…
Libyan Misurata Airport seizes eastern Libyan Airlines plane
Authorities at Libya's Misurata airport on Sunday seized a Libyan Airlines aircraft operating from Benghazi in the east of the country, the airline's Benghazi management said.The aircraft was seized in the western city of Misrata, east…
Eastern Libyan authorities force Jordan-bound flight to land in Benghazi for "security…
Eastern Libyan authorities forced a civilian flight of the Libyan Airlines airliner to land in Benina Airport in Benghazi for security checks soon after it had taken off from Misurata city, which is controlled by their rivals in the…


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PATTINSON'S CURSE
GRAEME ARNOLD
When Johanna Pattinson is forced to make a choice that runs contrary to everything she believes in, the stakes are deadly.
'Pattinson's Curse' is the first novel in a trilogy that follows the legal career of Johanna Pattinson: from solicitor to barrister and finally to judge. At every step the spectre of this terrible decision hangs over her, threatening to destroy all she holds dear.
Raised in a man's world, on a sheep farm in far western Victoria, Australia, Johanna believes she has escaped her life of hardship and oppression when she begins her career as a solicitor in Melbourne in 1981.
But the legal profession attracts some powerful and twisted characters.
Four men will shape the rest of Johanna's life: one she will love, one she will despise, one she must overcome, and another who will do his best to destroy her.
Will she be doomed forever by the decision he forces her to make, or can she escape 'Pattinson's Curse'?


Handyman Pours Dish Soap Into His Toilet – When He Shows Why? – I Ran To Try It!
If You Have A Clogged Toilet & Don't Want To Use A Plunger Then You Should Try This… It Works Better!
Most of us have at one point clogged a toilet or flushed something that caused the trap door to get stuck. If you are one of the unfortunate ones then you probably had water leak all over the place.
It's Embarrassing, It Smells & It Makes One Hell Of A Mess.
However, there is a simple trick that you can do to combat this problem and it works every single time.
I have actually used this strategy, and yes, it does work. I won't, ahem, go into the details, but it was a particularly stubborn clog in part created by my poorly designed back-to-back toilets. In a moment of desperation, I did some internet research & found this suggestion listed multiple times. I did not need nearly as much soap as this plumber used. I suspect the soap does not make the toilet paper dissolve so much as weighs it down somewhat with the oils and surfactants in the soap. It also acts as a lubricant for the clog. Now if you want to risk shooting a bucket of water into a toilet already brimming with unpleasantries, more power to you. If you want to haul out a snake, rubber gloves, etc., again, go for it. Oh, you probably don't bother wearing rubber gloves either, do you? You are manly men, after all. I would rather take the path of least resistance when it comes to clogged toilets, and I always grab the dish soap & use it sparingly first. Now that I think of it, I have not used a a plunger or a snake since I discovered clearing a clog this way.
jeeze did any of you trolls even try this method, i did and it worked great.
Well, I tried something similar a long time ago, and it works every single time: When needed, I pour just a little bit of dishwasher liquid into the bowl, then flush immediately. It works!! The agitating water combines with the detergent, and voila!, the resulting foam makes it all go away.
"When he shows why – I ran to try it!" I'm kinda jealous of your ability to clog a toilet on command.
Works like a charm. Throw in some baking soda also.
What if clock/blockage is farther down pipe?
That is so weak and people posting this. Let me tell you that I do construction and fix houses and please , you make a clog that like and pour dish soap and hot water ? Are you serious. That would never work on a major clog as you be snaking that puppy. I am so laughing.
He did say it probably wouldn't work on all clogs.
I did it the other day. ( Because I've done it before). Worked both times.
Why would you use profanity towards and speak down to someone that you more than likley do not know, I guess it makes you a Bigger person.
It is not often that we DIYers get good tips. I like the idea it definitely cuts an expensive Plumber visit.
5 seconds with a plunger…………..
Change in diet will work.
Don't believe my commode has a trapdoor .
Trap door to get stuck???
Yeah Art I think his trap is stuck.
I cracked my toilet boil using boiling hot water. It was my bad because I should have known that the bowl was cold because it was during the winter when I tried it. That said it had always worked well for me using boiled hot water up until that time. I put on gloves and use a plunger or a snake after that mess went down.
at a party i'm sure the line building up outside the door won't think something's up. personally the best way to handle it is close the lid on the toilet, briskly leave the room and get out of the house as quickly as possible hoping you'll never see those people again.
I need to go to Taco Bell so later I can try this at home.
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How Much Does it Cost to Get Concrete Services in Deerfield Beach?
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I have several slabs in my driveway that need to be raised approx 3 and my front concrete steps that need raised as well. I was just curious about the process to get an estimate on this. Thank you.
Concrete patio in back yard needs to be resurfaced and have cracks repaired.
Two car driveway preferred. Some concrete exists and needs to be replaced.
18 year old driveway has some ugly patching work. Probably needs sealing.


Pictured L-R: Mike Metheny, Angela Holmes, Isaiah Carter, Tristan Brown, Russ Berlin.
As part of the May 5 spring concert by the Lee's Summit Symphony Orchestra at the Bernard C. Campbell Performing Arts Center in Lee's Summit, MO, the Metheny Music Foundation's annual summer music studies scholarships were awarded by Foundation board member and chairman, Mike Metheny.
The Symphony's music director, Russell E. Berlin, is also a Metheny Music Foundation board member and serves on its Scholarship Committee.
Tristan Brown, a bassist, who will be attending the UMKC Bass Workshop in July.
Isaiah Carter, a drummer and keyboard player, who will be attending the Jazz Combo Workshop at the University of North Texas (Denton) in July.
Angela Holmes, a cellist, who will be attending the Innsbrook Institute Summer Music Academy (near St. Louis) in June.


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First of all, Merry Christmas to you guys because I didn't get the opportuny to wish you a Merry Christmas last week! I hope that you all had a wonderful day and that you were surrounded with all your loved ones.
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably already know that I spent Christmas in my favourite city in France - and when I think about it, it might be my favourite city ever too... and it's Bordeaux! I went to visit my family there for a week. I've always loved this place, I've never actually lived there but I used to go there at least twice a year as a child and stay for a few weeks each time, so Bordeaux really feels like home now.
I particularly love this time of the year in Bordeaux, with all the Christmas lights and decoration in the city... It's just so pretty. I took lots of pictures to show you guys so stay tuned for a post coming in the next few weeks! Where did you spend Christmas this year?
2016 flew by so quickly, it's unbelievable. 2016 wasn't perfect in any way but it was honestly one of the best years of my life. 2016 is the year I started my blog - I thought I wouldn't last long and eventually run out of ideas but here I am, wishing you a happy new year 7 months later and I couldn't be happier. Having and maintaining a blog (as well as all the social media platforms) isn't easy and I learned that this year too - it's so much work, way more than people imagine - but it's so rewarding and I love having my little creative space on the internet!
2016 is also the year I left France for quite a long time (1 month is a long time guys!) to live in another country, Spain. I've always really liked Spain and the Spanish language, but ever since I lived there I've been OBSESSED with the country and its people. I think I'm even turning Spanish sometimes, having a little siesta here and there when I'm tired ha!
2016 is the year I finally went on my first ever solo trip... I was a little nervous to be on my own at first but everything went fine and I can't wait to do it again!
This year, I'm going to graduate with a Bachelor degree! Those three years of hard work will finally pay off. I really want to do a Master's degree but I don't know yet if I'll start it right after graduating or if I'll take a gap year and travel... I think I could do with a year off on the road! If any of you guys took a year off, I'd love some advice.
Speaking of travelling, I have some VERY exciting things planned. One of them being that I'm going to leave France again for a few months, not for Spain this time... But for another country that I'm going to keep as a secret for now! I'll live there for a while and it's very very very exciting and I absolutely can't wait.
What are your goals for 2017? Do you have any trips planned already?


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Posted inRural Health
Rural North Carolina hospital leader emerges as outspoken critic of COVID 'noise'
Fueled by desperation, an exhausted staff and her upcoming retirement, Anderson has emerged among the state's health care leaders as a Facebook-posting, say-it-how-it-is advocate for COVID vaccines and a fighter against misinformation, conspiracy theories and political divides.
by BorderBelt September 12, 2021 August 31, 2022
Joann Anderson has served as president and CEO of what is now UNC Health Southeastern for 14 years. She plans to retire at the end of the year. Photo courtesy of UNC Health Southeastern
By Sarah Nagem, for The Border Belt Independent sarahnagem@borderbelt.org
As the leader of a rural North Carolina hospital, Joann Anderson has spent the last 18 months figuring out how to best care for patients sick with COVID-19.
Just when she thought the coronavirus pandemic had leveled off this summer, offering a glimmer of hope for a new and calmer kind of normal, a surge in cases began to overwhelm UNC Health Southeastern in Robeson County.
Now Anderson is mad, and she's letting everybody know about it.
"I don't use words like 'infuriated' or 'frustrated,'" said Anderson, president and CEO of the hospital in Lumberton in southeastern North Carolina. "That's not my norm. But I am about this situation."
And she's doing it in a region where many people remain skeptical of the vaccine and question the severity of the pandemic. Only 30% of people in Robeson County are fully vaccinated, the lowest rate among North Carolina's 100 counties.
Thirty-nine people who tested positive for COVID died at UNC Heath Southeastern in August, surpassing the previous record high of 31 in January, according to the hospital.
UNC Health Southeastern recently brought a mobile morgue on its campus because the morgue inside the hospital, which has space for 12 bodies, was full, Anderson said. The hospital is postponing some elective surgeries because of the rising number of COVID patients.
In a Facebook post in mid-August, Anderson said health care professionals know how to control the spread of COVID – through vaccinations, mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.
"Yet, we are going through another surge because people are not following what the medical community knows will make a difference," she wrote.
Hospital workers appreciated the "recognition, food, parades, etc." from the community last year, Anderson wrote. "This year, we need you to step up and take part in the solution."
For a brief moment, Anderson said, she thought she might get in trouble for the post, which has been shared more than 530 times.
But the feedback has been mostly positive, she said, particularly among her hospital staff and other health care leaders – including her son, Chad, who is vice president of surgery and pharmacy at UNC Rex Healthcare in Raleigh.
"Whatever she says, it's not going to be wrong, because it's from the heart," he said. "You don't muzzle passion."
UNC Health Southeastern in Robeson County has seen a rising number of COVID patients for weeks.
Photo courtesy of UNC Health Southeastern
'Not listening to politicians'
Dr. Robin Gary Cummings, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a member of the hospital's board of directors, applauded Anderson's willingness to be straight forward.
He said Anderson's message, and his message to the university, is this: "Folks, this is real. People are dying. This is not some really neat conspiracy that someone has dreamed up."
Anderson said she gets particularly upset when people accuse hospitals of trying to make extra money from the pandemic.
A 20% "add-on" payment for hospitals treating COVID patients who receive Medicare was included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress and signed into law in March 2020 by then-President Donald Trump, according to the American Hospital Association.
"We're going to get a little bit of a bump," Anderson said, "but if you come in with a COVID diagnosis and you're really sick, you're going to be here a lot longer than that payment would ever cover. So no, we're not getting rich off COVID."
In rural communities like Robeson County, Anderson said, treating patients is personal. Health care workers routinely care for family members, friends and friends' family members.
"We see these people at church, at the ball field, at the grocery store, in Walmart or wherever we might be," she said. "These are people we know and love. We're going to do the best we can for them. There's absolutely no reason for us to fabricate or to over-dramatize what's happening here."
Then there are people who say the vaccine contains some sort of chip created by the government.
"There's no chip," Anderson said. "I don't know how you'd even get a chip in there. The needle is teeny-tiny. There's no chip there."
Speaking of the government …
"OK, forget about the government," she said. "I'm not being controlled by the government in any way right now. The decisions we're making locally are the decisions that are being made by health care professionals in our community. And we're reading the literature, the science of what's going on. We're not listening to politicians. We're not listening to any of that other hoopla that's going on."
And politics …
"It's become a Republican versus Democrat issue," Anderson said. "I am a registered Republican. I took the vaccine."
Joann Anderson, president and CEO of UNC Health Southeastern, walks on the hospital campus.
Photo by Sarah Nagem
A passion for rural health care
Growing up in Peabody, Kentucky, in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Anderson said her family had to drive up to 40 minutes to reach the nearest hospital.
But the Frontier Nursing Service, which serves eastern Kentucky, set up a mobile unit in her community once a week. The nurses became role models for her, Anderson said, and she spent her summers during nursing school working for the organization.
There, she said, she saw "rural health care at its best and at its worst." And she gained a passion for it.
"It was clear that if you let your diabetes get out of control, you're going to lose your foot," Anderson said. "If you don't take care of your heart, lots of bad things can happen. Through their eyes, I got to see so many outcomes from not having regular access to care."
After raising two sons and serving as CEO of the Pikeville Medical Center in Kentucky for about a decade, Anderson's late husband took a job in the Carolinas. She considered working in a more urban setting, she said, but she took the helm at the Lumberton hospital 14 years ago.
Health care access is also a concern in Robeson County, which is the largest county in square miles in North Carolina but home to only about 117,000 people. It is one of the poorest and least healthy counties in the state.
"I felt like I could come and hopefully make a difference," Anderson said.
She describes herself as a "unicorn." Women make up about 75% of the hospital workforce in the United States, but only 13% of health care CEOs are women, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Anderson doesn't have a business degree, unlike many hospital leaders.
And, she said, "I'm a Kentucky basketball fan. In the state of North Carolina, that just really kind of makes you a unicorn in health care."
'Done about what I can do'
When the coronavirus pandemic began in North Carolina in early 2020, Anderson's hospital was independent.
Chad Anderson said his mother was tasked with steering her organization through a time of uncertainty without being under the umbrella of a larger health care provider.
"How scrappy do you have to be to not have a system resource?" he asked.
Like many rural hospitals over the last decade or so, the Lumberton facility had been looking for a partner. It became UNC Health's 12th hospital on Jan. 1.
Joann Anderson said the partnership has been good, but she's ready to move on – this time, to retirement at the end of the year.
Chris Ellington, who has been with UNC since 2008, will serve as the new CEO. He is currently president of UNC Health Care Network Hospitals.
"I think they need the opportunity to have somebody who's fully vested within the UNC system who can take it to that next level," she said. "I think I've done about what I can do."
Anderson, whose husband died in 2019, said she plans to move to Raleigh to be closer to her children and grandchildren. She likes to paint, and she might take an art class.
Soon she will join Campbell University's board of trustees, and she plans to remain an advocate for rural health care.
That includes speaking up about ways to slow the spread of COVID.
"My plea has been, you have trusted the health care community in the past," she said. "Trust us now. Don't let all of this other noise get in the way."
Joann Anderson has served as president and CEO of what is now UNC Health Southeastern for 14 years. She plans to retire at the end of the year.
by BorderBelt, North Carolina Health News

Rural North Carolina hospital leader emerges as outspoken critic of COVID 'noise'

by BorderBelt, North Carolina Health News
September 12, 2021

By Sarah Nagem, for The Border Belt Independent sarahnagem@borderbelt.org

As the leader of a rural North Carolina hospital, Joann Anderson has spent the last 18 months figuring out how to best care for patients sick with COVID-19.

Just when she thought the coronavirus pandemic had leveled off this summer, offering a glimmer of hope for a new and calmer kind of normal, a surge in cases began to overwhelm UNC Health Southeastern in Robeson County.

Now Anderson is mad, and she's letting everybody know about it.

"I don't use words like 'infuriated' or 'frustrated,'" said Anderson, president and CEO of the hospital in Lumberton in southeastern North Carolina. "That's not my norm. But I am about this situation."

Fueled by desperation, an exhausted staff and her upcoming retirement, Anderson has emerged among the state's health care leaders as a Facebook-posting, say-it-how-it-is advocate for COVID vaccines and a fighter against misinformation, conspiracy theories and political divides.

And she's doing it in a region where many people remain skeptical of the vaccine and question the severity of the pandemic. Only 30% of people in Robeson County are fully vaccinated, the lowest rate among North Carolina's 100 counties.

Thirty-nine people who tested positive for COVID died at UNC Heath Southeastern in August, surpassing the previous record high of 31 in January, according to the hospital.

UNC Health Southeastern recently brought a mobile morgue on its campus because the morgue inside the hospital, which has space for 12 bodies, was full, Anderson said. The hospital is postponing some elective surgeries because of the rising number of COVID patients.

In a Facebook post in mid-August, Anderson said health care professionals know how to control the spread of COVID – through vaccinations, mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.

"Yet, we are going through another surge because people are not following what the medical community knows will make a difference," she wrote.

Hospital workers appreciated the "recognition, food, parades, etc." from the community last year, Anderson wrote. "This year, we need you to step up and take part in the solution."

For a brief moment, Anderson said, she thought she might get in trouble for the post, which has been shared more than 530 times.

But the feedback has been mostly positive, she said, particularly among her hospital staff and other health care leaders – including her son, Chad, who is vice president of surgery and pharmacy at UNC Rex Healthcare in Raleigh.

"Whatever she says, it's not going to be wrong, because it's from the heart," he said. "You don't muzzle passion."

UNC Health Southeastern in Robeson County has seen a rising number of COVID patients for weeks.
Photo courtesy of UNC Health Southeastern

'Not listening to politicians'

Dr. Robin Gary Cummings, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a member of the hospital's board of directors, applauded Anderson's willingness to be straight forward.

He said Anderson's message, and his message to the university, is this: "Folks, this is real. People are dying. This is not some really neat conspiracy that someone has dreamed up."

Anderson said she gets particularly upset when people accuse hospitals of trying to make extra money from the pandemic.

A 20% "add-on" payment for hospitals treating COVID patients who receive Medicare was included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress and signed into law in March 2020 by then-President Donald Trump, according to the American Hospital Association.

"We're going to get a little bit of a bump," Anderson said, "but if you come in with a COVID diagnosis and you're really sick, you're going to be here a lot longer than that payment would ever cover. So no, we're not getting rich off COVID."

In rural communities like Robeson County, Anderson said, treating patients is personal. Health care workers routinely care for family members, friends and friends' family members.

"We see these people at church, at the ball field, at the grocery store, in Walmart or wherever we might be," she said. "These are people we know and love. We're going to do the best we can for them. There's absolutely no reason for us to fabricate or to over-dramatize what's happening here."

Then there are people who say the vaccine contains some sort of chip created by the government.

"There's no chip," Anderson said. "I don't know how you'd even get a chip in there. The needle is teeny-tiny. There's no chip there."

Speaking of the government …

"OK, forget about the government," she said. "I'm not being controlled by the government in any way right now. The decisions we're making locally are the decisions that are being made by health care professionals in our community. And we're reading the literature, the science of what's going on. We're not listening to politicians. We're not listening to any of that other hoopla that's going on."

And politics …

"It's become a Republican versus Democrat issue," Anderson said. "I am a registered Republican. I took the vaccine."

Joann Anderson, president and CEO of UNC Health Southeastern, walks on the hospital campus.
Photo by Sarah Nagem

A passion for rural health care

Growing up in Peabody, Kentucky, in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Anderson said her family had to drive up to 40 minutes to reach the nearest hospital.

But the Frontier Nursing Service, which serves eastern Kentucky, set up a mobile unit in her community once a week. The nurses became role models for her, Anderson said, and she spent her summers during nursing school working for the organization.

There, she said, she saw "rural health care at its best and at its worst." And she gained a passion for it.

"It was clear that if you let your diabetes get out of control, you're going to lose your foot," Anderson said. "If you don't take care of your heart, lots of bad things can happen. Through their eyes, I got to see so many outcomes from not having regular access to care."

After raising two sons and serving as CEO of the Pikeville Medical Center in Kentucky for about a decade, Anderson's late husband took a job in the Carolinas. She considered working in a more urban setting, she said, but she took the helm at the Lumberton hospital 14 years ago.

Health care access is also a concern in Robeson County, which is the largest county in square miles in North Carolina but home to only about 117,000 people. It is one of the poorest and least healthy counties in the state.

"I felt like I could come and hopefully make a difference," Anderson said.

She describes herself as a "unicorn." Women make up about 75% of the hospital workforce in the United States, but only 13% of health care CEOs are women, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Anderson doesn't have a business degree, unlike many hospital leaders.

And, she said, "I'm a Kentucky basketball fan. In the state of North Carolina, that just really kind of makes you a unicorn in health care."

'Done about what I can do'

When the coronavirus pandemic began in North Carolina in early 2020, Anderson's hospital was independent.

Chad Anderson said his mother was tasked with steering her organization through a time of uncertainty without being under the umbrella of a larger health care provider.

"How scrappy do you have to be to not have a system resource?" he asked.

Like many rural hospitals over the last decade or so, the Lumberton facility had been looking for a partner. It became UNC Health's 12th hospital on Jan. 1.

Joann Anderson said the partnership has been good, but she's ready to move on – this time, to retirement at the end of the year.

Chris Ellington, who has been with UNC since 2008, will serve as the new CEO. He is currently president of UNC Health Care Network Hospitals.

"I think they need the opportunity to have somebody who's fully vested within the UNC system who can take it to that next level," she said. "I think I've done about what I can do."

Anderson, whose husband died in 2019, said she plans to move to Raleigh to be closer to her children and grandchildren. She likes to paint, and she might take an art class.

Soon she will join Campbell University's board of trustees, and she plans to remain an advocate for rural health care.

That includes speaking up about ways to slow the spread of COVID.

"My plea has been, you have trusted the health care community in the past," she said. "Trust us now. Don't let all of this other noise get in the way."

Joann Anderson has served as president and CEO of what is now UNC Health Southeastern for 14 years. She plans to retire at the end of the year.
Photo courtesy of UNC Health Southeastern

This article first appeared on North Carolina Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Tagged: coronavirus, COVID-19, face masks, Lumberton, morgue, Robeson County, social distancing, UNC Health Southeastern, UNC Rex Healthcare, vaccines
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THANK YOU! I too am Republican, I have family members who are smart enough to know this but they are not taking vaccines. One died last week, one came close to dying earlier this year and one is on a ventilator now. I don't know if any of them took vaccine or not. It doesn't matter if the vaccine has some kind of issue or not, would you rather take it and be here instead of dying. The vaccines were developed under a Republican President and at least half the ones I speak of, if not all are Republican.
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Despite some good provisions, the CARES Act has glaring flaws and falls short of fully protecting workers during the coronavirus crisis
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act is an important step in the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic. It includes provisions for expanded unemployment insurance ($250 billion), aid to small businesses ($350 billion), cash payments to households ($300 billion), aid to states ($150 billion), emergency funding for health care supplies and investments ($100 billion), and money for industry bailouts ($450 billion). The total package will provide more than $2 trillion in funds.
There is much to like in this package, and timely relief is critical. But it also contains many flaws, largely left over from the first proposal forwarded by Senate Republicans. Because many of the weaknesses of this first proposal remain, the package will not be up to the job of fully protecting U.S. workers and their families from the economic consequences of the coronavirus shock, and it will not allow the economy to reboot quickly enough once the public health crisis ends. Further help from policymakers will clearly be needed.
When we estimated that a relief and recovery package needed to be at least $2.1 trillion just through the end of 2020, we noted that this was the number for a package that was well-targeted and would reliably deliver the vast majority of benefits to workers and their families. The CARES Act does not do that. Even though it includes more than $2 trillion in funding, key design failures mean the legislation will not be large enough to provide the necessary economic relief and recovery. The economy will continue to operate significantly below potential through the end of the year, even in optimistic scenarios where the shock caused by social distancing measures is relatively short.
We'll start with the (mostly) good parts of the CARES Act.
It provides substantial and welcome changes to the unemployment insurance (UI) system and payroll support programs for small businesses. The bill establishes a new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) system that expands benefits eligibility to many who have fallen through the cracks of our existing stingy UI system (think gig workers and the self-employed). The new PUA program also provides an added $600 per week in benefits. This leaves the program financing essentially 100% replacement of wage income for the bottom half of the workforce. This is much better than the status quo, but this could have been more generous for higher-wage workers. Importantly, the new PUA program also allows furloughed workers to receive benefits if their place of employment has closed due to COVID-19. This is also welcome—it can allow matches between employers and workers to be preserved during the downturn and restarted more quickly once the all-clear is sounded on public health measures.
Even though the bill does very little to close the enormous gaps in access to paid leave, the PUA program will serve as a backstop for those workers who do not have access to paid sick days or paid family leave but are unemployed, underemployed, or unable to work because of personal illness, quarantine, or the need to care for a family member.
The aid to small businesses could be quite useful as well. The aid starts as loans, but if the money is used to preserve jobs and maintain wages of employees over the crisis, then the loans can be forgiven—potentially keeping tens of millions of small business employees on payroll.
The bill includes $100 billion in investments in health care preparedness and another $150 billion in aid to state and local governments. Both are welcome, but state and local governments will clearly need substantially more federal support to avoid being a drag on recovery later in the year.
The bill also includes one-time cash payments to households of $1,200 per adult and $500 per child. These payments will be useful for families—especially those falling through the cracks of other aid—but could certainly be made more generous. Further, while these payments will be available even to very low-income households, individuals must have filed a federal tax return in order to receive it. Some 30 million people (people with very low incomes, seniors, people with disabilities, and veterans) don't file returns, which means that in order to get this aid, they will have to file tax returns during this pandemic.
Now, we'll move on to the glaring design flaws of the CARES Act.
The single biggest tranche of money in the package is a large pot of money aimed at industry rescues, but with no guardrails to ensure that public money is directed toward saving the jobs, wages, and benefits of typical workers rather than the wealth of shareholders, creditors, and corporate executives. The bill calls for industry bailouts to preserve jobs "to the greatest extent practicable," which is utterly toothless language. Further, there are no explicit protections for worker safety. Given that this entire crisis is driven by an epidemic and that many, including the president, want a premature return to economic activity in the face of this virus, it is imperative that U.S. workers be given protection against being forced to work in unsafe conditions. It is astounding that this basic protection cannot be made explicit for industries seeking public aid.
It is not particularly hard to design rules-based accountability measures that would ensure aid to industries actually protected workers' jobs, wages, benefits, and health. But instead of hard-and-fast rules, the CARES Act provides for an inspector general and oversight committee that will be in charge of making sure this industry aid is spent in the public interest. This is simply insufficient. The deeply flawed financial-sector bailouts of 2008, for example, included an inspector general and oversight committee, and yet far too much of the money went to support financial firms and far too little went to support typical families.
We could undertake a key test for whether corporations genuinely need public aid or are simply trying to exploit this crisis to grab public money by demanding these companies give the federal government equity stakes in exchange for immediate aid. By granting the government equity, these companies would dilute existing shareholders' claims on future profits. If these existing shareholders are unwilling to allow this dilution, this is a clear sign that they firmly expect the company to continue operations even without a bailout. This can be seen in Boeing's response to suggestions of granting equity stakes in exchange for aid—the company said clearly they would find other ways to cope. But if there are other ways to cope, then a bailout is, by definition, not needed.
Finally, this proposal repeats terrible mistakes of the past by not instituting triggers to enable relief and recovery aid to keep flowing as long as economic conditions warrant. Time-based aid makes no sense, particularly when facing as uncertain an economic shock as the current one. Instead, as long as relief is needed and the economy remains depressed, aid should continue to flow. Optimally, the triggers that would enable this aid to keep flowing would be based on employment and hours of work instead of, or in addition to, unemployment rates. This consideration applies not just to the expanded UI benefits, but also to the direct cash payments to households and the aid to state and local governments. None of this aid should be shut off automatically on an arbitrary date. Instead, it should wind down gradually as economic conditions warrant.
The human toll of the economic shock that health measures related to the coronavirus inflict on the U.S. economy is entirely dependent on our policy response. If we are smart and ambitious and driven by a desire to minimize human suffering, we can shield the vast majority of households from the vast majority of potential damage. This bill is a useful step, but we must do better—or the economic damage will be staggering.
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Health leaders said they are concerned that widespread fuel poverty will increase the high number of annual deaths associated with cold homes, estimated at 10,000, and add pressure to an already overwhelmed health service.
London: Senior officials in UK's National Health Service (NHS) on Friday made an "unprecedented" appeal to the government to take action on rising energy prices as the country faces a "public health emergency".
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Taylors said these outbreaks of illness will strike "just as the NHS is likely to experience the most difficult winter on record".
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Mahindra has finally launched the much-awaited Thar 4X2 and refreshed the SUV's variant line-up. The new 2023 Mahindra Thar 4X2 has been launched in India at an introductory price of Rs 9.99 lakh ex-showroom. Bookings for the same are open and deliveries will begin this week from January 14, 2023.
The new Mahindra Thar 4X2 is offered in three variants with petrol automatic and diesel manual powertrain options. Prices start at Rs 9.99 lakh and go up to Rs 13.49 lakh ex-showroom. It is important to note that these introductory prices are applicable for the first 10,000 bookings only.
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Vijay Nagra, President, Automotive Division, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited said, "The Mahendra Dhar is not only a capable SUV, but an emotional one as well. Since 2020, the new tar has captured the imagination of SUV enthusiasts, with more than 80,000 fans exploring the impossible every day. To make our offering even better, we listened to our customers and designed a new range of Thar with important improvements.
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Apple in June 2021 introduced the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 15, which was released on September 20. It brings a slew of new features and improvements to your iPhone, including an easier way to use Safari, and huge upgrades to FaceTime, tools to reduce distractions, a new notifications experience, added privacy features, complete redesigns for Safari, Weather, and Maps, and more.
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iOS 15 introduces completely redesigned notifications. Notifications will now display contact photos for people and larger icons for apps to make them easier to identify.
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With SharePlay, you'll be able to share movies, music, and your screen with anyone you're FaceTiming with. This feature enables users to share experiences with each other during FaceTime calls, including media like Apple Music songs, TV shows, or movies. Media is played in sync for all participants and there are shared playback controls, so anyone in a SharePlay session can play, pause, or skip content, as well as add to a shared queue. SharePlay also gives users the ability to share their screens to view apps together in a FaceTime call.
Third-party apps such as Disney+, ESPN+, HBO Max, Hulu, MasterClass, Paramount+, Pluto TV, TikTok, Twitch, and others have committed to integrating SharePlay.
SharePlay extends to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, so users can watch shows or movies on a bigger screen while connecting over FaceTime. Smart volume control dynamically and automatically adjusts audio so you can hear your friends even when shared content is playing loudly. SharePlay also features in-app Messages controls.
Fancier Maps
The Maps app now offers a new 3D view in cities with significantly enhanced details, showing buildings, pedestrian crosswalks, bike lanes, and more. There is a new city-driving experience with added road details and improved Transit features, such as pinned favorite lines, notifications to disembark, and AR walking directions.
There is also a new walking directions view that uses augmented reality. Users simply hold up their iPhones, and the Maps app will generate an accurate position to deliver detailed walking directions using the camera.
When searching for a new location, there are new options to filter results by criteria like cuisine or opening times. Maps will also automatically update search results when moving around.
All-New Weather App
There is a complete redesigning of the Weather app on iOS 15. The Weather app now features more graphical displays for weather data, a full-screen map, and a dynamic layout that changes based on outside conditions.
Apple has redesigned the Weather app's animated backgrounds to more accurately reflect the sun's current position and precipitation conditions. There are also notifications to highlight when rain or snow starts and stops.
Safari Improvements
iOS 15 brings a completely new design to Safari. Controls are at the bottom of the screen so that they are easier to reach with one hand.
There is a new, compact tab bar that floats at the bottom of the screen so that users can easily swipe between tabs, and it also contains a Smart Search field. Tab Groups allow users to save their tabs in a folder and sync across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In addition, there is a new tab overview grid view.
Users can simply pull down a web page to refresh it and there is now support for voice search. Safari also gains a customizable start page and mobile web extensions for the first time.
Other Notable Features:
Live Text & Visual Lookup:
One of the coolest features on iOS15, it features Apple's computer vision technology. Point your camera app at anything with text, and you'll see a text icon on the bottom right. That'll let you highlight the text so you can easily copy and paste it to another app. You can point the camera at landmarks, plants, pets, or books, and get information about whatever you're looking at.
There is a major update to Memories with a new design and an interactive interface. Memories now supports integration with Apple Music, using on-device intelligence to offer song suggestions for personalized Memories.
This will feature user-created tags to conveniently sort and categorize notes in new ways. There is a Tag Browser to tap combinations of tags and quickly view tagged notes. There are also new custom folders that automatically collect notes based on tags.
Digital Wallet:
You will have support for new key types in iOS 15, such as homes, offices, or hotel rooms. Later this year, customers in participating U.S. states will be able to add a driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app.
Apple's Health App:
You can now share your health data with family members or caregivers. You can store your Covid-19 test results and vaccination records in the app, too.
It now features tags to help with organization, and it is possible to search and filter reminders based on tags. There is a new Tag Browser to tap combinations of tags and quickly view tagged reminders.
Talking to Siri in iOS 15 is more secure than ever because your audio now doesn't leave your device. You can control a variety of on-device functions without an internet connection, like asking Siri to turn on Dark mode or set an alarm, and it'll run much faster.
Mail Privacy Protection:
This feature prevents senders from seeing if you opened an email, and it hides your IP address and location.
CSAM Detection:
Starting later this year, Apple will be able to detect known Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) images stored in iCloud Photos, enabling Apple to report these instances to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a non-profit organization that works in collaboration with U.S. law enforcement agencies.
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