Social distancing fatigue, cabin fever or just simple frustration — call it what you will. Many of us have had enough. Everyone has been doing their part to help flatten the curve by staying healthy at home since mid-March. The novelty has worn off for many, and even introverts are starting to miss socialization! Many…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued recommendations for employers to protect workers at “medium exposure risk” to the coronavirus. Those are people who work jobs that require frequent contact with the public and sometimes within 6 feet, such as in retail businesses. The recommendations, which do not carry any legal obligations for…
Norton Healthcare will resume outpatient surgery and other outpatient invasive procedures on Wednesday, May 6. To accommodate these patients, who are required to have a COVID-19 test before their procedure, Norton Healthcare has opened pre-procedure testing clinics. In addition, hospital inpatients now have the opportunity to be tested, and pregnant women coming to the hospital…
Benjamin Sheehan just wanted to find a way to help when he saw that Louisville needed helpers. Ben, a junior at St. Xavier High School in Louisville, knew that he would have more time on his hands as he stayed safe at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I wanted to find a way to help…
Esta publicación también está disponible en español. During a visit to the Norton Brownsboro Hospital emergency department one recent afternoon, a man was brought in two days after he first started noticing stroke symptoms. “He’s in the right place now,” a nurse said, reassuring the woman who dropped him off. He was wheeled to the…
Norton Healthcare specialists are researching a variety of experimental therapies as possible treatments for patients with COVID-19. These therapies fall into four categories: Agents that work to prevent the virus from growing: Medications are being used to either kill the virus or prevent it from growing. Drugs that block or lessen the profound inflammation that…
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the coronavirus can live in the air and on surfaces between several hours and several days. The study found that the virus is viable for up to 72 hours on plastics, 48 hours on stainless steel, 24 hours on cardboard and four hours on…
All four Norton Healthcare adult-service hospitals were once again awarded an “A” in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. Norton Audubon Hospital, Norton Brownsboro Hospital, Norton Hospital and Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital each received an “A” grade in fall 2019, and all repeated the national honor again for spring 2020. (Pediatric hospitals are not rated…
As hospitals step up and respond to the influx of COVID-19 patients amid a pandemic, a dangerous trend has emerged: Fewer patients are seeking treatment for heart attack and stroke symptoms. A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that at each of nine large U.S. hospitals, the number of heart attack…
Physicians around the country are testing a possible treatment for COVID-19 using plasma taken from blood donated by fully recovered COVID-19 patients, called convalescent plasma. Locally, Norton Healthcare began offering this experimental treatment in early April and has transfused 21 patients who were critically ill with COVID-19. Of those, six have been well enough to…
If you’re sick in bed with COVID-19, you need to get up, stretch, breathe deeply and get your lungs full of as much air as you can — even though it hurts, according to a Norton Healthcare pulmonologist. Microscopic air sacs in the lungs — alveoli — are doing much of your respiratory system’s work….
Tents erected at Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital and Norton Audubon Hospital to handle any spike in COVID-19 patients are being removed, as current local trends indicate they won’t be needed. If numbers of patients with COVID-19 start to increase, the tents may need to go up again. We encourage everyone to keep practicing social…
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