The Times-Standard is reporting that after more than a year of negotiations, the National Union of Healthcare Workers and St. Joseph’s hospital has reached an agreement. Read the full story here and read NCJ’s past coverage of the National Union of Healthcare Workers November strike here.
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#ICYMI: Here’s Video of the Coast Guard Flyover to Honor Frontline Workers
In case you missed the Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay flyovers at Mad River Community Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital to honor those working on the frontlines to keep the community safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, don’t worry. There’s video.
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Hospital Workers to Receive a Coastie Flyover of Thanks This Afternoon
Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay helicopters will fly over Mad River Community Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital today at 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively, to honor their employees and others working to keep the community safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Coasties are asking members of the public to also do their part by […]
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Slowing the Velocity
As the Journal went to press April 7, Public Health announced one more Humboldt County resident had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the local total to an even 50. While that number represented a sharp spike over two weeks, with 48 of those positive cases coming over the span of 14 days and 29 of […]
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News Roundup: St. Joes Gets First Trial Patient, Census Needs People to Count
The Times-Standard is reporting that St. Joseph Hospital has already started clinical trials of the antiviral drug remdesivir with a local COVID-19 patient. “They fell into the severe COVID category with dropping oxygen and thus were a candidate for the trial,” St. Joseph Health-Humboldt County CEO Roberta Luskin-Hawk told the Times-Standard‘s Ruth Schneider. The intravenous drug that […]
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St. Joseph Approved to Participate in Trials of Possible COVID-19 Drug
St. Joseph Hospital just announced that it has been cleared to participate in two national clinical trials of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir for treatment of moderate and severe cases of COVID-19. According to a press release, St. Joseph was proactive in seeking accelerated approval for the trials in Humboldt because it believes the drug has […]
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Community Generosity Brings New Ventilators to Humboldt but Capacity Still a Critical Concern
The race to increase Humboldt County’s capacity to care for the wave of critically ill COVID-19 cases officials fear is coming got a major boost this week, thanks to a ripple effect of generosity. It began with nearly 100 local women coming together to donate $105,000 to St. Joseph Hospital to cover the purchase of […]
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Eureka City Schools Shifts to Distance Learning, T-S Reports
The Times-Standard is reporting that the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees has voted to shift entirely to distance learning for the remainder of the year following a recommendation from the Humboldt County Office of Education and the public health officer in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report quotes Superintendent Fred Van Vleck […]
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St. Joseph, Redwood Memorial Open COVID-19 Screening Tents
St. Joseph and Redwood Memorial hospitals have opened tents on their campuses to begin screening patients who have “significant” symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 virus. “To be clear, each site is meant to serve only as an initial touch point for those who feel as though they are exhibiting significant symptoms consistent with COVID-19, such […]
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Coronavirus Case Treated at St. Joe’s on Sunday
St. Joseph Hospital treated the two individuals who were showing symptoms of a viral illness after traveling to mainland China — one of whom is Humboldt County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, otherwise known as novel coronavirus. According to the hospital, the patients were evaluated at St. Joseph’s emergency room on Feb. 16. Read the […]
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St. Joseph Hospital and Redwood Memorial Hospital Healthcare Workers on Strike
Employees at St. Joseph and Redwood Memorial hospitals donned red shirts and held picket signs demanding fair labor practices as they crowded the corner of the entrance into St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka yesterday. They were protesting the hospital’s staffing shortage and the state of new employee salary negotiations, according to a press release sent […]
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ACLU Lawsuit Accuses St. Joseph Hospital of Transgender Discrimination (Updated with Statement from St. Joseph)
UPDATE: St. Joseph Health issued a brief statement last night in response to the civil rights lawsuit filed yesterday alleging transgender discrimination at its Eureka hospital, saying it takes the allegations “very seriously” and is committing its “full attention to investigating this matter.” “At St. Joseph Health, we believe health care is a basic human […]