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New Protective Booths Improve COVID Testing

2021-07-07T10:57:41-04:00

AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION from Mass General employees is helping increase testing capacity while limiting risk to health care providers and patients and conserving limited supplies of personal protective equipment. Kristian Olson, MD, Director of CAMTech and Mass General Hospital’s Springboard Studio, in conjunction with an external design firm, has developed “Hexapods”—personal protective booths equipped with three gloved external hand ports, allowing clinicians to administer a swab test to patients without making direct contact. The concept increases safety for both health care providers and patients, ameliorates testing capacity, and has cut down consumption of scarce PPE such as N95 masks by [...]

New Protective Booths Improve COVID Testing2021-07-07T10:57:41-04:00

Increasing Safe Isolation and Surge Capacity

2020-10-30T13:47:31-04:00

MGH Photography; Kate Flock; Quality Inn Revere; Chelsea Covid-19 Isolation Hotel IN APRIL, MassGeneral Brigham and Boston Healthcare for the Homeless opened Boston Hope, a 1,000-bed medical center inside the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center designed to safely isolate, test and treat COVID-19 patients experiencing homelessness while reducing density at area hospitals. Geren Stone, MD, Director of the MGH Global Medicine Residency and Fellowship Program, was among the clinical staff of the field hospital, which served 700 COVID-positive patients before its doors closed in June. MassGeneral Brigham also set up a similar facility in Revere: A 147-room Quality [...]

Increasing Safe Isolation and Surge Capacity2020-10-30T13:47:31-04:00

Asylum Clinic Advocates for Release of ICE Detainees

2020-10-30T13:47:39-04:00

THE MGH ASYLUM CLINIC, led by Matt Gartland, MD, Director of the Center for Global Health (CGH) Asylum Clinic, has been instrumental in securing the release of several immigrants from a detention facility in North Dartmouth. Gartland recently co-authored an article published in Lancet Infectious Diseases examining the elevated risk of COVID-19 to incarcerated individuals, including immigrants in ICE detention. In collaboration with Nathan Praschan, MD, MGH Psychiatry, he also wrote a declaration in a lawsuit brought by Lawyers for Civil Rights against ICE on behalf of individuals in ICE detention at the MA Bristol County House of Corrections. The [...]

Asylum Clinic Advocates for Release of ICE Detainees2020-10-30T13:47:39-04:00

Holyoke COVID-19 Community Antibody Study

2021-07-07T10:57:42-04:00

The Holyoke Board of Health and Massachusetts General Hospital are conducting a research study to determine how many people in Holyoke have had COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. It aims to find out who has been most at risk for COVID-19 so far, and to learn more about how it spreads. Why is it important? The spread of COVID-19 has impacted many communities, forcing city and state officials to implement containment strategies such as lockdowns and other social distancing measures. Sero-epidemiologic studies, which measure antibody levels in individuals in the community, can help understand what percentage of individuals [...]

Holyoke COVID-19 Community Antibody Study2021-07-07T10:57:42-04:00

Global Health Collaborative Builds New COVID-19 Treatment Center

2021-07-07T10:57:42-04:00

Led by Stephen Asiimwe and Annet Kembabazi, The Global Health Collaborative (GHC) is closely working with key partners, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH), and CGH Boston, to enhance capacity and support for regional COVID-19 response. With support of The Wyss Foundation, and in collaboration with MUST senior leaders, we are repurposing some resources from the First Mile program towards the COVID-19 response. Proposed support will go towards: Surge infrastructure development that includes construction of temporary 80-100 bed COVID-19 Treatment Center at MRRH, with technical support from Build Health International. Procurement of emergency supplies [...]

Global Health Collaborative Builds New COVID-19 Treatment Center2021-07-07T10:57:42-04:00

“We will make it. We will get there”: MGHfC 2018 Pediatric Global Health Summit

2020-02-28T09:19:17-05:00

The MassGeneral Hospital for Children and the MGH Center for Global Health hosted the 2018 Pediatric Global Health Summit on October 15. The event drew health care providers, advocates and scientists from the New England area and was highlighted by presentations from pediatricians across the globe. Inspiring Keynote (From left) Jason Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP, FIDSA, Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PhD, Ronald Kleinman, MD, and Louise Ivers, MBBCH, BAO, MD, MPH, DTM&H following the MassGeneral for Children 2018 Pediatric Global Health Summit Keynote Address. The meeting kicked off with an address from Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PhD, Vice Chancellor of [...]

“We will make it. We will get there”: MGHfC 2018 Pediatric Global Health Summit2020-02-28T09:19:17-05:00
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