LYNN ― The city’s mobile vaccination program will end on Thursday, Nov. 4, but medical professionals are still urging residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at brick-and-mortar locations.
Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC) decided to shift its vaccination efforts and formally end its mobile vaccination program on Nov. 4.
“We are just restructuring our resources for vaccination efforts,” said Rosie Conway, program manager for mobile operations for COVID response at the LCHC. “We felt most comfortable to conclude the service because access [to vaccines] has increased tremendously throughout, not only within the city of Lynn, but within the state and the country.”
https://www.itemlive.com/2021/10/24/lynn-community-health-center-ending-mobile-vaccines/
LYNN — The Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC) passed a Joint Commission survey last week, which declared the center and its work as “impressive.” The commission — which is an independent, accreditation organization that upholds rigorous quality-assurance and patient-safety standards — visits all health care organizations, including major hospitals, every three years. LCHC had three surveyors visit last week; the surveyors did not announce their visit until the morning of. LCHC Chief Executive Officer Dr. Kiame Mahaniah said LCHC passed the survey with flying colors, and the surveyors were most impressed with the dedicated and engaged folks who work there.
https://www.itemlive.com/2021/09/21/lynn-community-health-center-passes-compliance-visit-with-impressive-results/“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” — Nietzsche As a medically-trained leader, I strongly believe in the COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness and have supported the immunization campaign to the best of my and my institution’s ability. How then, do I approach vaccine hesitancy? First, I keep my anxiety in context. We are lucky to live in Massachusetts, with a vaccination rate high enough to prevent a devastating society-wide outbreak. It means our emergency rooms are available for other life-threatening issues; intensive care unit beds are there when we need them. The disasters we are now seeking to prevent are at a personal and family level. We can’t forget about other killers, still out prowling: cancer, heart disease, accidents, strokes, diabetes. Dead is dead. Losing a loved one to a car accident is scant improvement over losing them to COVID-19. If you are worried about new, vaccine-resistant and deadly variants emerging amongst the unvaccinated, you should be donating money and political support to COVAX, a global vaccine effort. Second, I don’t consider those who are unvaccinated irrational or enemies of the State. As individual citizens and as a society, we daily make decisions detrimental to our health. We love fast food, we ride motorcycles without helmets, we have sex without protection, we don’t forgive and carry grudges for years, we binge watch shows instead of sleeping and we don’t get our 8,000 steps. ...
https://www.itemlive.com/2021/08/17/kiame-mahaniah-take-it-from-a-healthcare-professional/A randomized evaluation of a nationwide information campaign on Facebook found that short messages from physicians and nurses had a significant impact on reducing holiday travel and decreasing subsequent Covid-19 infection rates. Researchers found that the campaign, which reached almost 30 million Facebook users, was an impactful and cost-effective way to slow the spread of Covid-19 and enact behavior change. This study was designed by an interdisciplinary research team, based on a growing body of literature on the effectiveness of physicians as public health messengers, to test how these messages would work at scale. The research team includes academics from MIT, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Online Care Group, Stanford University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital, Yale University, Lynn Community Health Center, Johns Hopkins University, St. Anthony North Family Medicine, Paris School of Economics, and McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas. ...
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